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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Samuel Richardson"”.
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The Beauty of Impertinence in World Literature from 1740 to 1977
<p>Samuel Richardson, Jane Austen, Leo Tolstoy, and Jorge Amado have often been accused of making their heroines too beautiful. But these heroines are also accomplished in ways that demonstrate that their personalities are important. The ambiguous character of the novels by these authors has …
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Family relationships and masculinity in Fanny Burney's Evelina and Sophie von La Roche's Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim
… ancestor of both novels, such as Clarissa, by Samuel Richardson, which bears some similarity to both works and was published in 1747 – 48. This thesis will explore the questions of whether La Roche’s novel influenced Burney’s novel in some way or if Richardson’s work functioned as a common …
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Relational Selves in Eighteenth-Century Literature
… of selfhood. Reading works by James Thomson, Samuel Richardson, Eliza Haywood, and D.A.F. Sade, I argue that their literary portrayals of male and female selves cultivate a far more fluid sense of identity, one that ultimately derives from the libertine world of the Restoration and its …
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Cleaning Up the Junkyard: An Exploration in Developing an Online Course
… It saw the beginning of the novel with Samuel Richardson and an outpouring of prose writing across the disciplines With figures such as Samuel Johnson, Christopher Wren, and Alexander Pope, British culture saw vital advances in areas of criticism, architecture, and literature An online …
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Remember the Country and the Age in Which We Live": The British Gothic Novel in the Age of Enlightenment, 1764-1798
… still on the rise. By exploring the influence of Samuel Richardson on the development of the Gothic novel, the role of formal and informal educational structures, representations of political ideology, and the intensive use of aesthetics in its generic shape and articulation, I seek to demonstrate …
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Appropriating the Restoration hero(ine): intertextuality and the transformation of gender identity, 1677-1759
… of Aphra Behn, Thomas Southerne, John Dryden, Samuel Richardson and David Garrick. Previous scholarship on Restoration ""she-tragedies"" has tended to emphasize how their heroines’ descent into hysteria, madness, and death implies a total loss of female agency and power. My project challenges …
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How Epistolary Novelists’ Literalizations of Moral Sense Philosophy Dramatize the Long-Eighteenth Century’s Gender Battles
… how and why the novelists Aphra Behn, Samuel Richardson, Sarah Fielding, Frances Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Mary Shelley literalized the dialectics of certain moral philosophers. This research asserts that the novelists adopted the structure of the three-stage moral dialectic …
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Bad Mothers in Eighteenth-Century Fiction
… The thesis moves on to examine the novels of Samuel Richardson: Pamela I and II, Clarissa and Sir Charles Grandison, novels that concentrate on the dynamics within various families with the emphasis placed on the role and behaviour of the mother. Richardson‘s women have pre-ordained roles in …
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Between Concealment and Revelation: Oblique Modes of Female Self-Expression in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Life Writing
… Charlotte Charke (1755), Sarah Siddons (1834), Samuel Richardson (1748), and Samuel Jackson Pratt (1790), my dissertation offers to extend our understanding of the cultural discourses surrounding female expression by situating textual examples within their respective cultural contexts: …
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The other side of the window : an essay on structural iconography in English and American fiction
… of the violator. The writers examined are Samuel Richardson, Henry James, William Faulkner, John Barth and Bernard Malamud. The third chapter treats fiction written by women that explores the woman's desire to elude such possession. Whereas the voyeur is typically an outsider looking in the …
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Risky Business: The Economy of Self-Management in Eighteenth-Century British Fiction
… that choice seems superficially unreasonable. Samuel Richardson then translated these intermingled risks into sexual terms in Clarissa (1748), telling the story of a woman who knows that defending herself against a rapist means risking financial destitution. Rather than choose her virtue or her …
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Garden Doors: Tempting The Virtuous Heroine In Clarissa And Betsy Thoughtless
… The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, and Samuel Richardson's Clarissa, or a History of a Young Lady provide a place for the characters to gain knowledge; but without preparation to receive this knowledge - if restrained behind the veil of decorum - they come to harm, rather than …
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Samuel Richardson's Revisions to Pamela (1740, 1801)
… of Pamela's ascent into aristocratic society. Richardson's revisions to the fourteenth edition of Pamela, published posthumously in 1801, change Pamela's character from the 1740 first edition in such a way as to make her social climb more believable to readers outside the novel and to "readers" …
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Ambivalent Scales: Methods for Reading Scenes of Sexual Violation
<p>The importance of unveiling rape in the #MeToo era has unintentionally obscured encounters that lack the clarity of “yes” or “no.” However, desire can be ambiguous even in unambiguous cases of assault. Feminist activists and scholars have started to address ambiguity by arguing for a new …