...Howard D. Weinbrot Like other earlier authors, Fielding and Richardson place culturally shared “codes” in their texts and exploit those codes for their readers' instruction and delight. The historical critic uses multiple approaches to reclaim what our ancestors knew and what can enlarge modern...

...Patricia Brückmann The College of William & Mary 2003 “Men, Women and Poles”: Samuel Richardson and the Romance of a Stuart Princess Patricia Brückmann...

...Peter Sabor Duke University Press 2010 R “The Job I Have Perhaps Rashly Undertaken”: Publishing the Complete Correspondence of Samuel Richardson Peter Sabor McGill University...

...Janet Aikins Yount Duke University Press 2007 Strange Bedfellows: Textual Transference among Samuel Richardson, Edith Wharton, and T. S. Eliot in the Modernist Sexology Movement Janet...

...Heather Zias The College of William & Mary 2003 Who Can Believe? Sentiment vs. Cynicism in Richardson’s Clarissa Heather Zias West Virginia University You actually accept a law...

...Louise Curran Duke University Press 2010 R “Into Whosoever Hands Our Letters Might Fall”: Samuel Richardson’s Correspondence and “the Public Eye” Louise Curran University College...

...Rachel Sulich This article uses Samuel Richardson's Clarissa (1747–48) as a case study in order to expose the relationship between dueling and suicide in eighteenth-century literature and culture. By examining the novel alongside contemporary documents concerning dueling, I make the case...

...Adam Budd Duke University Press 2007 Why Clarissa Must Die: Richardson’s Tragedy and Editorial Heroism Adam Budd University of Edinburgh When Samuel Richardson released the final...

... better readers of eighteenth-century novels. One of his examples is the phrase “dispensing power,” which James II claimed in his attempt to remake the monarchy on an autocratic model, and which Samuel Richardson used in a different context while describing Pamela in her “exalted condition.” Further...

...John Richardson The College of William & Mary 2000 John Gay, The Beggar’s Opera, and Forms of Resistance It is a truism that The Beggar’s Opera (1728) articulates dissent through form as much as through content...

...John Richardson This essay examines Tristram Shandy in the context of philosophers and thinkers such as Hume, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson, focusing on how the novel represents war, and how it raises questions about sympathetic responses to war. I will argue that Sterne is concerned...

...John Richardson This essay examines how poetry of the American Revolution contributed to the broader tradition of Anglophone war poetry through the “private sublime,” which would start as a minor and relatively unknown development, but eventually become one of the primary modes of depicting war...

...John Richardson The martial literature of the eighteenth century shows an increasing preoccupation with atrocity. By the middle decades of the century, writers imagining war routinely include narratives in which cruel enemy soldiers brutally mistreat and kill innocent civilians. The development...

... performing sexual acts. In “Fanny’s Feeling,” I argue instead that Fanny Hill tells the story of the heroine’s development of emotional sophistication, which provides the key to her success. Other novelists, such as Samuel Richardson and Eliza Hay-wood, depict characters that acquire emotion sophistication...

..., Oxfordshire, Caroline Lybbe Powys (1738–1817); the first woman to publish a Grand Tour account, Lady Anna Miller (1741–81) of Batheaston, Somerset; the unmarried daughter of the rector of Thornton in Craven, Yorkshire, Dorothy Richardson (1748–1819); and the Whig political salon hostess, Lady Elizabeth...

...Janine Barchas Richardson Samuel . Early Works: “Aesop’s Fables,” “Letters Written to and for Particular Friends,” and Other Works , ed. Pettit Alexander ., vol. 1 of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Samuel Richardson . ( Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. , 2012 ). Pp. civ + 742...

... University of Toronto Thomas Keymer & Peter Sabor, eds. The ‘Pamela’ Controversy: Criticisms and Adaptations of Samuel Richardson’s ‘Pamela,’ 1740–1750. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2001. Volume 1: pp. lxxi + 260; 2: l + 355; 3: pp. xxx + 349; 4: xliii + 312; 5: 335...

... genres of drama and non-fictional prose” (9). Havens organizes the book by canonical authors Samuel Richardson, Frances Burney, Jane Austen, and Maria Edgeworth—with a final chapter on Laurence Sterne, Matthew Lewis, and William Godwin. The strengths of this organization are many: the chapters...

...: Cambridge Univ., 2006). Pp. 295. 14 ills. $85. ISBN 0-521-81337-9 J Several years ago, Peter Sabor and Thomas Keymer published The Pamela Controversy: Criticism and Adaptations of Samuel Richardson’s Pamela, 1740   –  1750, an incredibly important and comprehensive...

...” and that provides vivid illustrations of how the mind works while engaged in the act of reading (113). She takes issue with those who see Richardson’s novel as mere light or inadvertent porn, on grounds that “the confusion that surrounds erotic scenes trains the audience to read with the most caution...