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Samuel Richardson"s fictions of gender

Tassie Gwilliam

Samuel Richardson"s fictions of gender

by Tassie Gwilliam

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Published by Stanford University Press in Stanford, Calif .
Written in

    Subjects:
  • Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761 -- Criticism and interpretation,
  • Psychological fiction, English -- History and criticism,
  • Epistolary fiction, English -- History and criticism,
  • Masculinity in literature,
  • Femininity in literature,
  • Sex role in literature

  • Edition Notes

    Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-195) and index.

    StatementTassie Gwilliam.
    Classifications
    LC ClassificationsPR3667 .G93 1993
    The Physical Object
    Paginationxii, 202 p. ;
    Number of Pages202
    ID Numbers
    Open LibraryOL1721789M
    ISBN 100804721165
    LC Control Number92025186

    Read "Making Gender, Culture, and the Self in the Fiction of Samuel Richardson The Novel Individual" by Bonnie Latimer available from Rakuten Kobo. Proposing that Samuel Richardson's novels were crucial for the construction of female individuality in the mid-eighteent.   Analysis of Henry Fielding’s Novels By Nasrullah Mambrol on • (1). Henry Fielding’s (22 April – 8 October ) lasting achievements in prose fiction—in contrast to his passing fame as an essayist, dramatist, and judge—result from his development of critical theory and from his aesthetic success in the novels themselves.

    Bonnie Latimer is the author of Making Gender, Culture, and the Self in the Fiction of Samuel Richardson ( avg rating, 1 rating, 0 reviews, published /5(2). This book provides a wide-ranging, accessible and humourous introduction to the English novel from Daniel Defoe to the present day. It covers the works of major authors, including Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, Laurence Sterne, Walter Scott, Jane Austen, the Bront s, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Henry James.

    The Hardcover of the Making Gender, Culture, and the Self in the Fiction of Samuel Richardson: The Novel Individual by Bonnie Latimer at Barnes & Noble Due to COVID, orders may be delayed. Thank you for your patience. For instance, the 18 th century ‘rise of the novel’, often presented as the exclusive achievement of male authors like Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding (as in Ian Watt’s classic study), has been recently reinterpreted to include the contribution of female pioneers of the genre, such as the popular and inventive female.


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out of 5 stars "Samuel Richardson's Fictions of Gender" Reviewed in the United States on Gwilliam's book aims to reveal in Richardson's novels "the unstable and fictional nature of the construction of masculinity and femininity, and to show the fragility of their structural, definitional dependence on one another " (14 Cited by:   out of 5 stars "Samuel Richardson's Fictions of Gender" Reviewed in the United States on Gwilliam's book aims to reveal in Richardson's novels "the unstable and fictional nature of the construction of masculinity and femininity, and to show the fragility of their structural, definitional dependence on one another " (14).Cited by: Get this from a library.

Samuel Richardson's fictions of gender. [Tassie Gwilliam] -- In developing a new gender theory for analyzing Samuel Richardson's three major novels - Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison - the author argues that these novels of sexual threat expose.

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In developing a new gender theory for analyzing Samuel Richardson's three major novels - Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison - the author argues that these novels of sexual threat expose, sometimes unwillingly, the extraordinary labor required to construct and maintain the eighteenth-century ideology of gender, that apparently natural dream of perfect symmetry between the sexes.

Buy Samuel Richardson's Fictions of Gender by Tassie Gwilliam () by Tassie Gwilliam (ISBN:) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible : Tassie Gwilliam. Book Description. Proposing that Samuel Richardson's novels were crucial for the construction of female individuality in the mid-eighteenth century, Bonnie Latimer shows that Richardson's heroines are uniquely conceived as individuals who embody the agency and self-determination implied by that term.

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The Novel Individual. By Bonnie Latimer. Edition 1st Edition. First Published. Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded is an epistolary novel by English writer Samuel Richardson, a novel which was first published in Considered the first true English novel, it serves as Richardson's version of conduct literature about marriage.

Pamela tells the story of a fifteen-year-old maidservant named Pamela Andrews, whose employer, Mr. B, a wealthy landowner, makes unwanted and. Pamela, novel in epistolary style by Samuel Richardson, published in and based on a story about a servant and the man who, failing to seduce her, marries her.

Pamela Andrews is a year-old servant. On the death of her mistress, her mistress’s son, “Mr. B,” begins a series of stratagems. Read this book on Questia. In developing a new gender theory for analyzing Samuel Richardson's three major novels - Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison - the author argues that these novels of sexual threat expose, sometimes unwillingly, the extraordinary labor required to construct and maintain the eighteenth-century ideology of gender, that apparently natural dream of perfect.

Clarissa, in full Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady, epistolary novel by Samuel Richardson, published in – Among the longest English novels ever written (more than a million words), the book has secured a place in literary history for its tremendous psychological insight.

Samuel Richardson's fictions of gender. [Tassie Gwilliam] Home. WorldCat Home About WorldCat Help. Search. Search for Library Items Search for Lists Search for Samuel Richardson: Document Type: Book: All Authors / Contributors: Tassie Gwilliam.

Find more information about: ISBN: OCLC Number. Samuel Richardson, a printer for much of his life, had not intended to be a agreed with booksellers to write a book of lightly fictionalised model letters, offering examples of a suitable letter in various circumstances, such as requests for a loan, or condolences.

Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady is an epistolary novel by English writer Samuel Richardson, published in It tells the tragic story of a young woman, Clarissa Harlowe, whose quest for virtue is continually thwarted by her family. Samuel Richardson's Fictions of Gender.

Stanford: Stanford UP, Tassie is interested in exploring how Richardson navigates between two conflicting ideologies of gender in his portrayals of femininity and masculinity Vaid, Sudesh. The Divided Mind: Studies in Defoe and Richardson.

New Delhi: Associated Publishing House, This book has been cited by the following publications. This list is generated based on data provided by CrossRef. McMurran, Mary Helen A Companion to World Literature.

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(Page 5). The unwieldy title of Making Gender, Culture, and the Self in the Fiction of Samuel Richardson: The Novel Individual belies the book’s clear focus and organization. Readers who look past the title will find accessible and insightful analysis of Richardson’s works in a text that makes an important contribution to eighteenth-century gender.

Richardson's novel, too, tells the very story of its own existence: you find out at its conclusion that the "letters" that comprise the book are Clarissa's "legacy" after her death. The heroine. Richardson’s fiction commonly portrays individuals struggling to balance incompatible demands on their integrity: Pamela, for instance, must either compromise her own sense of right or offend her Master, who deserves her obedience except insofar as he makes illicit demands on her.This book analyzes the ways in which female virtue was tied to a new concept of authenticity in 18th-century sentimental fiction, producing a redefinition of gender relations on the one hand & a re-examination of the value & place of fictional narrative on the other.

Samuel Richardson's Fictions of Gender By Tassie Gwilliam Stanford.Review of Making Gender, Culture, and the Self in the Fiction of Samuel Richardson: The Novel Individual by Bonnie Latimer.

/ Thompson, Helen F. In: Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 39, No. 4,p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review.