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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Gwilliam, Tassie (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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