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Samuel Richardson [ Art and Literature ]
… letters as Richardson’s three novels are – partly in the case of Pamela; Or, Virtue Rewarded , and wholly in the case of Clarissa; Or, the History of a Young Lady and The History of Sir Charles Grandison – epistolary novels. 2 A network of … Full-Text Database, 1996. 2 . Samuel Richardson, Pamela; Or, Virtue Rewarded (London: C. Rivington and J. Osborn, 1740); Clarissa; Or, the History of a Young Lady, ed. Angus Ross (London: S. Richardson, 1747-1748); The History of Sir Charles … ‘I could not express half my thoughts when I saw you last.’ The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson, author of Pamela, Clarissa and Sir Charles Grandison, ed. Anna Laetitia Barbauld (London: Phillips, 1804), 6 vols, VI, p. 1. Hereafter, …
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Clarissa, 1748 (2) [ Practices ]
… Only tapping your shoulder thus , said she; tapping again more gently ." … Fiction … Violence … Samuel Richardson, Clarissa. Or, the History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life (3 vols, 1748), iii, p. 42-4. … Clarissa, 1748 (2) …
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Duelling (1753) [ Practices ]
… The History of Sir Charles Grandison: In a series of letters published from the originals, by the editor of Pamela and Clarissa. In seven volumes. ... London, printed by S. Richardson, and Dublin, re-printed and sold by the …
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Friendship [ Social interaction / Character / Feelings & Emotions ]
… for both men and women in their navigation of private life, as evidenced by the struggles of Samuel Richardson ’s Clarissa Harlowe when she becomes alienated from those she terms her ‘natural friends’. 1 The Temple of Friendship in the … his political significance and to register one’s claims on him in advance of his future reign. 1 . Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady, ed. Angus Ross (London: Penguin, 1985), p. 1413; for reflection on Clarissa and the ‘dislocation of friendship’, see Naomi Tadmor, Family and Friends in Eighteenth-Century England: …
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Pierre-Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos [ Art and Literature / Association ]
… the debates of his time through his writing. His epistolary Les liaisons dangereuses , which was based on Richardson’s Clarissa , was his ‘unique book’. More radical than its English model, it called into question a whole sociability that … English as Dangerous Liaisons or Dangerous Connections ) was indebted to Rousseau’s La Nouvelle Héloïse and Richardson’s Clarissa and simultaneously marked the pinnacle and decline of a genre that was inextricably linked to the … of the popularity of the translations of Richardson ’s and Fielding’s novels in eighteenth-century France. For him, Clarissa was ‘the masterpiece of novels’ (Laclos 440). Abbé Prévost’s 1751 translation of the novel had attempted to …
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Preface of Lyrical Ballads (1800) [ Concepts ]
… to the Reader’s own experience of the reluctance with which he comes to the reperusal of the distressful parts of Clarissa Harlowe, or The Gamester; while Shakespeare’s writings, in the most pathetic scenes, never act upon us, as …
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Solitude [ Feelings & Emotions ]
… well into the eighteenth century and are subtly conveyed in Samuel Richardson ’s celebrated 1748 epistolary novel Clarissa, Or, the History of a Young Lady , which has been characterised as ‘a tragedy of solitude, inarticulacy and deceit’. 8 Like friendship, solitude in the troubled world of Clarissa, did not follow its expected course. Throughout the novel, but especially at the start, Clarissa found comfort in her private closet and in writing to her friends, especially her confidante, Anna Howe. Her …
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Rake [ Politics & Society / Character / Social interaction ]
… one of the most famous incarnations of the rake: the character of Robert Lovelace from Samuel Richardson ’s 1748 novel Clarissa . The book continued Richardson’s didactic intent, already on display in his 1741 Familiar Letters , which … virtue. Unlike Mr. B, who is eventually redeemed and becomes a supposedly devoted husband to the former servant Pamela, Clarissa ’s Lovelace is denied such a resolution. With his second novel, Richardson once again made use of the rake … while going further in his condemnation of licentious upper-class men. Lovelace spends most of the plot agonising over Clarissa’s refusal to submit to him, her status as a woman, the daughter of a mere country gentleman and – perhaps worst …
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Duelling [ Politics & Society ]
… dimension of duelling and the condemnation by critics of the medieval barbarity of duelling. In Richardson ’s Clarissa or in Rousseau ’s La Nouvelle Héloïse , for instance, the heroine insists, on the eve of the duels which … opens on a duel in which the hero’s father is killed and ends on a duel between Barry and his stepson. The end of Clarissa is perhaps the most perfect example of the contradiction of duels, when Morden defeats Lovelace in the final … readers return to these forms to reflect upon their enduring presence throughout the century. 15 . Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, ed. Angus Ross (London: The Folio Society, 1985, [1748]), p. 1487. 16 . Further famous examples from French …
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