Styles of Meaning and Meanings of Style in Richardson's Clarissa.
Title:
Styles of Meaning and Meanings of Style in Richardson's Clarissa.
Author:
Fulton, Gordon.
ISBN:
9780773567849
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (265 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on the Text -- 1 Introduction: A Stylistic Approach to Clarissa -- PART ONE: STYLES OF MEANING -- 2 Proverbs and the Language of Control -- 3 The Moral Sentiment as a Dialogic Style of Meaning -- PART TWO: MEANINGS OF STYLE -- 4 Surprised by Style: Lovelace, Clarissa, and Language for Love -- 5 Why Look at Clarissa? Physical Description and Richardson's Revision of Libertine Style -- 6 Sentimental Libertinism: Richardson's Reform of Libertine Desire -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Abstract:
Gordon Fulton provides a fascinating new study of styles in Samuel Richardson's masterpiece, Clarissa, connecting the style the characters deploy in their speech and letters with their positions in society. Fulton argues that the novel is a critical examination of the relationship between language and power and an expression of Richardson's own understanding of social interaction as a struggle for personal pre-eminence and sexual dominance.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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