Latimer Making Gender, Culture, and the Self in the Fiction of Samuel Richardson

The Novel Individual
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-10240-3
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 228 Seiten

Reihe: British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century

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. In addition to placing Richardson within the context of his own culture, recouping for contemporary readers the influence of Grandison on later writers, including Maria Edgeworth, Sarah Scott, and Mary Wollstonecraft, is central to her study. Latimer argues that Grandison has been unfairly marginalised in favor of Clarissa and Pamela, and suggests that a rigorous rereading of the novel not only provides a basis for reassessing significant aspects of Richardson's fictional oeuvre, but also has implications for fresh thinking about the eighteenth-century novel. Latimer's study is not a specialist study of Grandison but rather a reconsideration of Richardson's novelistic canon that places Grandison at its centre as Richardson's final word on his re-envisioning of the gendered self.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Latimer, Bonnie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents: Introduction: pigtails and Pope's poetry; The modern individual; The manhood of the mind; The moral economy; The practice of piety; The intimate contract; Afterword; Bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Bonnie Latimer is Lecturer in English at the University of Plymouth, UK.