Richardson's Clarissa and the eighteenth-century reader / / Tom Keymer [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Keymer Tom
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1992
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxiii, 270 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 823/.6
• Soggetto topico: Authors and readers - Great Britain - History - 18th century; Books and reading - Great Britain - History - 18th century; Women and literature - England - History - 18th century; Epistolary fiction, English - History and criticism; Rape victims in literature; Reader-response criticism
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Written as a collection of letters in which very different accounts of the action are unsupervised by sustained authorial comment, Richardson's novel Clarissa offers an extreme example of the capacity of narrative to give the reader final responsibility for resolving or construing meaning. It is paradoxical then that its author was a writer committed to avowedly didactic goals. Tom Keymer counters the tendency of recent critics to suggest that Clarissa's textual indeterminacy defeats these goals by arguing that Richardson pursues subtler and more generous means of educating his readers by making them 'if not Authors, Carvers' of the text. Discussing Richardson's use of the epistolary form throughout his career, Keymer goes on to focus in detail on the three instalments in which Clarissa was first published, drawing on the documented responses of its first readers to illuminate his technique as a writer and set the novel in its contemporary ethical, political and ideological context.
• Altri titoli varianti: Richardson's 'Clarissa' & the Eighteenth-Century Reader
• Titolo autorizzato: Richardson's Clarissa and the eighteenth-century reader
• ISBN: 1-139-08599-9; 0-511-55349-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996247986803316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought ; ; 13.