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Autore |
Castle Terry |
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Titolo |
Clarissa's Ciphers : Meaning and Disruption in Richardson's Clarissa / / Terry Castle |
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Cornell University Press, 1982 |
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Ithaca, N.Y. : , : Cornell University Press, , 1982 |
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©1982 |
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ISBN |
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9781501706936 |
1501706934 |
9781501706943 |
1501706942 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (206 pages) |
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Soggetti |
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Reader-response criticism |
Rape victims in literature |
Women and literature - England - History - 18th century |
Epistolary fiction, English - History and criticism |
Anthologies |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Bibliography: p. 189-196. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 . Clarissa by Halves -- 2. Discovering Reading -- 3. Reading the Letter, Reading the World -- 4. Interrupting "Miss Clary" -- 5. Denatured Signs -- 6. The Voyage Out -- 7. The Death of the Author: Clarissa's Coffin -- 8. The Death of the Author: Richardson and the Reader -- 9. Epilogue: The Reader Lives -- Bibliographic Postscript -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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As Samuel Richardson's 'exemplar to her sex,' Clarissa in the eponymous novel published in 1748 is the paradigmatic female victim. In Clarissa's Ciphers, Terry Castle delineates the ways in which, in a world where only voice carries authority, Clarissa is repeatedly silenced, both metaphorically and literally. A victim of rape, she is first a victim of hermeneutic abuse. Drawing on feminist criticism and hermeneutic theory, Castle examines the question of authority in the novel. By |
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