1st Edition
Reason and Religion in Clarissa Samuel Richardson and 'the Famous Mr. Norris, of Bemerton'
By E. Derek Taylor
Copyright 2009
178 Pages
by
Routledge
178 Pages
by
Routledge
178 Pages
by
Routledge
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What distinguishes Clarissa from Samuel Richardson's other novels is Richardson's unique awareness of how his plot would end. In the inevitability of its conclusion, in its engagement with virtually every category of human experience, and in its author's desire to communicate religious truth, E. Derek Taylor suggests, Clarissa truly is the Paradise Lost of the eighteenth century. Arguing that... Read more
Contents: Introduction: the end of Clarissa; Un-Locke-ing Samuel Richardson; Mary Astell, Elizabeth Carter, Clarissa Harlowe, and other 'descendants' of Norris; Out-Norrised; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Taylor, E. Derek
