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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780567603321

Autore

Nelles H.V.

Titolo

Passion and virtue : essays on the novels of Samuel Richardson / / edited by David Blewett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2001

©2001

ISBN

1-4426-5897-5

1-282-01426-9

9786612014260

1-4426-7829-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (363 p.)

Collana

Heritage

Disciplina

823.6

Soggetti

Epistolary fiction, English - History and criticism

Emotions in literature

Virtue in literature

Livres numeriques.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

e-books.

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Pamela. Pamela's textual authority / John B. Pierce ; "Ciceronian eloquence" : the politics of virtue in Richardson's Pamela / John A. Dussinger ; The place of Sally Godfrey in Richardson's Pamela / Albert J. Rivero ; Enclosing the immovable : structuring social authority in Pamela 2 / Betty A. Schellenberg -- Clarissa. Protean Lovelace / Jocelyn Harris ; Clarissa's treasonable correspondence : gender, epistolary politics, and the public sphere / Rachel K. Carnell ; Is Clarissa bourgeois art? / Daniel P. Gunn ; Abuse and atonement : the passion of Clarissa Harlowe / Peggy Thompson ; "Written in the heart" : Clarissa and scripture / Robert A. Erickson ; The gnostic Clarissa / Margaret Anne Doody -- Sir Charles Grandison. Sir Charles Grandison : Richardson on body and character / Juliet McMaster ; "Sufficient to the



day" : anxiety in Sir Charles Grandison / Lois A. Chaber ; The dialectic of love in Sir Charles Grandison / Wendy Jones ; Sir Charles Grandison and the "language of nature" / George E. Haggerty.

Sommario/riassunto

"Human passion was Samuel Richardson's great theme. His novels reveal the conflict of human passion in all its aspects - love, lust, and suffering - and the attempt to achieve a virtuous existence. In Passion and Virtue, this conflict is considered and critically analysed in fourteen essays, all originally published in Eighteenth-Century Fiction, the leading journal for the analysis of fiction from this period."--Jacket.