Samuel Richardson's Fictions of Gender /
In developing a new gender theory for analyzing Samuel Richardson's three major novels - Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison - the author argues that these novels of sexual threat expose, sometimes unwillingly, the extraordinary labor required to construct and maintain the eighteenth-ce...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, CA :
Stanford University Press,
[2022]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- A Note to the Reader
- Introduction
- 1. Pamela and the Duplicitous Body of Femininity
- 2. "Like Tiresias": Knowing the Sex in Clarissa
- 3. "The Good Man, Alas!": The History of Sir Charles Grandison and the Triumph of Masculinity
- Afterword
- Notes
- Index