Clarissa's ciphers : meaning & disruption in Richardson's "Clarissa" /
"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...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press,
1982.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.