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Novel (2009) 42 (3): 497–503.
Published: 01 November 2009
... Sheridan's Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph , Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni's Lettres de Milady Juliette Catesby , Samuel Richardson's Clarissa , and Jean-Jacques Rousseau's La Nouvelle Héloïse . As the narration of erotic pleasure and erotic danger gets filtered through the intimacy between a female narrator...
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Novel (2013) 46 (1): 26–49.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Julian Jimenez Heffernan This article examines the centrality of the motif of the hand in Samuel Richardson's Pamela . By underscoring the structural salience of the hand-derived notions of maintenance, command, manumission, manufacture and manners, the article seeks to prove that the novel plots...
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Novel (2014) 47 (3): 363–382.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Stephanie Insley Hershinow In this essay, I confront the problem of character inconsistency in Henry Fielding's Tom Jones by first showing how the novel is positively influenced by the example of naive virtue and class conversion found in Samuel Richardson's Pamela , which Fielding had previously...
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Novel (2000) 33 (2): 157–174.
Published: 01 August 2000
.... Burns, 1999 During the London printing of Samuel Richardson's influential The History of Sir Charles Grandison, the novel was pirated by the Irish. In August of 1753, a Dublin printer bribed Richardson's own employees to ship the first six volumes and portions of the seventh to Ireland, where...
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Novel (2017) 50 (1): 8–34.
Published: 01 May 2017
... with Armstrong, Vineta Colby , and Helen Thompson , who use the label “domestic fiction” in their studies of novels focusing on women and their roles in the home. For Colby and Armstrong, Richardson's Pamela lays the groundwork for Victorian literature. Samuel Richardson interiority detachable...
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Novel (2012) 45 (1): 120–123.
Published: 01 May 2012
... considered “liveliness.” Focusing on Anglo- French relations, the fourth chapter uses two major works by Samuel Richardson in order to contrast the damage that Pamela’s particularity did to its reception with the celebration that Clarissa’s universality met. In the fifth and final chapter, McMurran...
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Novel (2005) 38 (2-3): 272–290.
Published: 01 November 2005
... . The Compleat English Gentleman . Ed. Karl D. Bülbring London: D. Nutt, 1890 . Eagleton , Terry . The Rape of Clarissa: Writing, Sexuality, and Class Struggle in Samuel Richardson . Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1982 . Fielding , Henry . An Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase...
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Novel (2012) 45 (3): 502–505.
Published: 01 November 2012
.... She first links the origins of the English novel to what she calls “the fantasy of exposure” (110), finding in William Godwin’s Caleb Williams and Samuel Richardson’s Pamela the emergence in literature of a self that does not have to be what it appears on the surface. Because the self one...
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Novel (2013) 46 (3): 457–459.
Published: 01 November 2013
..., Eliza Haywood’s Love in Excess and Fantomina, and Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa to be challenging and engaging. Kramnick examines the seeming erotic nihilism of Rochester in light of Rochester’s inclination to locate desire not in ineffable spirit but in matter. Indeed, one might read...
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Novel (2004) 37 (1-2): 5–23.
Published: 01 August 2004
... Emerson and Michael Holquist. Ed. Michael Holquist. Austin: U of Texas P, 1981 . 258 –422. Barbauld , Anna Laetitia , ed. The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson . London: Richard Phillips, 1804 . Behn , Aphra . The Roundheads. The Works of Aphra Behn . Ed. Janet Todd. Vol. 6...
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Novel (2004) 37 (1-2): 221–223.
Published: 01 August 2004
... criticism itself. One of the many impressive things about Price's book is that it manages to do this with shocking economy. The book itself consists of a relatively brief Introduction and three chapters: one on Samuel Richardson, one covering miscellaneous adventures in eighteenth- century...
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Novel (2020) 53 (3): 473–475.
Published: 01 November 2020
... of mind—indifference, impassivity, impersonality—is necessary to make us understand how emotion works in eighteenth-century fiction. Lee convincingly carves out a distinct vision of a specific strain in the history of the novel, one that, while grounded in major authors and classic works (e.g., Samuel...
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Novel (2021) 54 (2): 300–304.
Published: 01 August 2021
... that includes Samuel Richardson's Clarissa , Henry Fielding's Tom Jones , Frances Burney's Camilla , Ann Radcliffe's gothic novels, and Austen's Emma . From its pairing of Burney's fiction and Tina Fey's sitcom Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt to its epilogue, which moves from Austen to Amy Heckerling's...
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Novel (2007) 41 (1): 5–28.
Published: 01 May 2007
... , David . Sentimental Narrative and the Social Order in France, 1760–1820 . Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994 . Doody , Margaret Anne . A Natural Passion: A Study of the Novels of Samuel Richardson . Oxford: Oxford UP, 1974 . Doody , Margaret Anne . The True Story of the Novel . New...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 31–37.
Published: 01 May 2010
...-Century Reader . Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1992 . Pocock , J. G. A. Virtue, Commerce, and History: Essays on Political Thought and History, Chiefly in the Eighteenth Century . Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1985 . Richardson , Samuel . Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded . Ed. Keymer Thomas...
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Novel (2011) 44 (1): 20–22.
Published: 01 May 2011
... to Francis Jeffreys, a fan of Samuel Richardson’s, we “slip into the domestic privacy of the characters” whereby the material context and the psychological content go together and “we get inside their minds as well as inside their houses” (175). What is at stake for Watt, then, is a kind...
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Novel (2016) 49 (3): 542–545.
Published: 01 November 2016
... the “affective binding-in of readers to texts,” which is to say that desire produces the reader as a reading subject just as much as the reader produces the text. In Frow's account of the novel, the history of sympathetic identification that binds the reader into the text begins with the works of Samuel...
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Novel (2020) 53 (2): 303–306.
Published: 01 August 2020
... experience. In a wonderful chapter on Francis Hutcheson and Samuel Richardson, for example, Yahav shows how both the moral philosopher and the novelist explore the dilemma of judging and acting within an acutely felt, self-consciously time-limited perspective: “[W]e need to judge while in motion—while...
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Novel (2001) 34 (2): 163–179.
Published: 01 August 2001
... of which would have been available to Austen in the preface to Barbauld's edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson (1804), Barbauld seems to have been a formative influence, though the dating of Northanger Abbefs tangled publication and revision history makes this claim a very risky...
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Novel (2012) 45 (1): 116–119.
Published: 01 May 2012
... drive to “make a psychological response exquisitely physical” (53), Samuel Richardson’s novel enacts a violent form of sensibility that is fetishistic in that “it strives toward concretization, even as it draws energy from its origin as an abstract quality” (60). Park reads this impulse both...