03489nam 2200625Ia 450 991078271720332120230912162204.01-282-85807-697866128580790-7735-6784-410.1515/9780773567849(CKB)1000000000713580(SSID)ssj0000284572(PQKBManifestationID)11227417(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000284572(PQKBWorkID)10261325(PQKB)11212106(CaPaEBR)400620(CaBNvSL)slc00201006 (Au-PeEL)EBL3331503(CaPaEBR)ebr10147085(CaONFJC)MIL285807(OCoLC)929121374(DE-B1597)657117(DE-B1597)9780773567849(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/6qt2dg(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/1/400620(MiAaPQ)EBC3331503(MiAaPQ)EBC3246018(EXLCZ)99100000000071358019990323d1999 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrStyles of meaning and meanings of style in Richardson's Clarissa[electronic resource] /Gordon D. FultonMontreal ;Ithaca McGill-Queen's University Press1999xiv, 250 pBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7735-1849-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on the Text -- Introduction: A Stylistic Approach to Clarissa -- Proverbs and the Language of Control -- The Moral Sentiment as a Dialogic Style of Meaning -- Surprised by Style: Lovelace, Clarissa, and Language for Love -- Why Look at Clarissa? Physical Description and Richardson’s Revision of Libertine Style -- Sentimental Libertinism: Richardson’s Reform of Libertine Desire -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexUsing socially and culturally engaged discourse stylistics, Fulton explores ideologies of social formation, gender, and sexuality in the novel. The first part of the study, "Styles of Meaning," discusses Richardson's use of the genres of sententiousness (moral sentiments and proverbs) to engage questions of ideology. Fulton shows how Richardson draws on the socially significant difference between proverbs and maxims to develop contrasting styles in which his characters establish and defend personal identities in relation to family and friends. The second part, "Meanings of Style," explores ways in which meanings created through linguistic choices in the critical domains of gender and sexuality both sustain and sometimes betray characters struggling either to control or to resist being controlled by others. A contribution to both critical discussion of eighteenth-century fiction and to discourse stylistics committed to relating literary texts to their social and cultural contexts, this study introduces a mode of literary stylistic analysis with exciting possibilities for cultural studies.English literatureEnglish literature.823/.6Fulton Gordon D1484625MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782717203321Styles of meaning and meanings of style in Richardson's Clarissa3703361UNINA