03187oam 22006974a 450 991013664600332120241209134927.0978150170693615017069349781501706943150170694210.7591/9781501706943(CKB)3710000000888719(MiAaPQ)EBC5482837(OCoLC)560917090(MdBmJHUP)muse55751(DE-B1597)480082(OCoLC)1002266020(OCoLC)1004883071(OCoLC)1011452956(OCoLC)958271239(OCoLC)981096926(OCoLC)999366038(DE-B1597)9781501706943(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/43327(EXLCZ)99371000000088871919820302d1982 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierClarissa's CiphersMeaning and Disruption in Richardson's Clarissa /Terry CastleCornell University Press1982Ithaca, N.Y. :Cornell University Press,1982.©1982.1 online resource (206 pages)Includes index.9780801414954 0801414954 9781501707148 1501707140 Bibliography: p. 189-196.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 --IndexAs 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 tracing the patterns of abuse and exploitation that occur when meanings are arbitrarily and violently imposed, she explores the sexual politics of reading.Reader-response criticismRape victims in literatureWomen and literatureEnglandHistory18th centuryEpistolary fiction, EnglishHistory and criticismReader-response criticism.Rape victims in literature.Women and literatureHistoryEpistolary fiction, EnglishHistory and criticism.823/.6Castle Terry221242MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910136646003321Clarissa's Ciphers2271390UNINA