Clarissa on the Continent
Title | Clarissa on the Continent PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas O. Beebee |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Total Pages | 245 |
Release | 2010-11-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0271039558 |
Clarissa, or the History of A Young Lady
Title | Clarissa, or the History of A Young Lady PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Richardson |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Total Pages | 1536 |
Release | 2004-02-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0141904887 |
Pressured by her unscrupulous family to marry a wealthy man she detests, the young Clarissa Harlowe is tricked into fleeing with the witty and debonair Robert Lovelace and places herself under his protection. Lovelace, however, proves himself to be an untrustworthy rake whose vague promises of marriage are accompanied by unwelcome and increasingly brutal sexual advances. And yet, Clarissa finds his charm alluring, her scrupulous sense of virtue tinged with unconfessed desire. Told through a complex series of interweaving letters, Clarissa is a richly ambiguous study of a fatally attracted couple and a work of astonishing power and immediacy. A huge success when it first appeared in 1747, and translated into French and German, it remains one of the greatest of all European novels.
Clarissa - An Abridged Edition
Title | Clarissa - An Abridged Edition PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Richardson |
Publisher | Broadview Press |
Total Pages | 811 |
Release | 2010-09-27 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1551114755 |
This classic novel tells the story, in letters, of the beautiful and virtuous Clarissa Harlowe’s pursuit by the brilliant, unscrupulous rake Robert Lovelace. The epistolary structure allows Richardson to create layered and fully realized characters, as well as an intriguing uncertainty about the reliability of the various “narrators.” Clarissa emerges as a heroine at once rational and passionate, self-sacrificing and defiant, and her story has gripped readers since the novel’s first publication in 1747–48. This new abridgment is designed to retain the novel’s rich characterizations and relationships, and reproduces individual letters in their entirety whenever possible. This Broadview Edition provides a uniquely accessible entry point for readers, while retaining much of the powerful reading experience of the complete novel.
Models of Reading
Title | Models of Reading PDF eBook |
Author | Martha J. Koehler |
Publisher | Bucknell University Press |
Total Pages | 340 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780838755846 |
"Models of Reading will be of interest to Richardson, Burney, and Laclos scholars, as well as specialists in the history of the novel, the culture of sensibility, epistolary fiction, gender, and theories of reading. Koehler's arguments incorporate much recent criticism of eighteenth-century fiction, making this study a useful compendium even beyond the value of its own findings."--Jacket.
Richardson's 'Clarissa' and the Eighteenth-Century Reader
Title | Richardson's 'Clarissa' and the Eighteenth-Century Reader PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Keymer |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 300 |
Release | 2004-06-24 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521604406 |
Whilst drawing to some extent on recent theoretical studies, this book restores Clarissa to its largely neglected eighteenth-century context.
Four Girls in Europe
Title | Four Girls in Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Clarissa Sands Arnold |
Publisher | iUniverse |
Total Pages | 266 |
Release | 2009-12 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1440186588 |
"To think we are really across the Atlantic and have but to look around to find ourselves hurrying to be off the Steamer onto the tug to be brought into Liverpool!" Clarissa Sands Arnold, October 27, 1900. So begins the Diary of a year in the life of one American young woman. The beginning of a journey of wonder as Four Girls and their two female chaperones tour England and the Continent, following the well traveled path of The European Grand Tour. They become part of the throngs of middle class and wealthy Americans trying to acquire some Old World polish while experiencing the ancient history and varied cultures not available back home. Clarissa's account chronicles the experiences and logistics of such a prolonged trip by six women traveling alone, without any male protection. It also serves as a fascinating glimpse into the political and social world of Europe at the beginning of the twentieth century.
The Pen and the People
Title | The Pen and the People PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Whyman |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | 368 |
Release | 2011-03-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0191615854 |
Susan Whyman draws on a hidden world of previously unknown letter writers to explore bold new ideas about the history of writing, reading and the novel. Capturing actual dialogues of people discussing subjects as diverse as marriage, poverty, poetry, and the emotional lives of servants, The Pen and the People will be enjoyed by everyone interested in history, literature, and the intimate experiences of ordinary people. Based on over thirty-five previously unknown letter collections, it tells the stories of workers and the middling sort - a Yorkshire bridle maker, a female domestic servant, a Derbyshire wheelwright, an untrained woman writing poetry and short stories, as well as merchants and their families. Their ordinary backgrounds and extraordinary writings challenge accepted views that popular literacy was rare in England before 1800. This democratization of letter writing could never have occurred without the development of the Royal Mail. Drawing on new information gleaned from personal letters, Whyman reveals how the Post Office had altered the rhythms of daily life long before the nineteenth century. As the pen, the post, and the people became increasingly connected, so too were eighteenth-century society and culture slowly and subtly transformed.