Clarissa's ciphers : meaning & disruption in Richardson's "Clarissa" /

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"As 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 silence...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Castle, Terry (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 1982.
Subjects:
Richardson, Samuel, > 1689-1761. > Clarissa.
RICHARDSON, SAMUEL, > 1689-1761. > CLARISSA.
Clarissa (Richardson, Samuel)
1700-1799
Epistolary fiction, English > History and criticism.
Women and literature > England > History > 18th century.
Rape victims in literature.
Reader-response criticism.
Women in literature.
Femmes dans la littérature.
Esthétique de la réception.
Femmes et littérature > Angleterre > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Victimes de viol dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Women in literature
Epistolary fiction, English
Rape victims in literature
Reader-response criticism
Women and literature
MUJERES EN LITERATURA.
REACCION CRITICA DE LECTORES.
England
hermeneutics
Samuel Richardson
sexual politics
reader-response criticism
Clarissa
feminist criticism
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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