Styles of Meaning and Meanings of Style in Richardson''s Clarissa
ISBN: 9780773567849
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / McGill-Queen''s University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Richardson Samuel 1689-1761. Clarissa; Richardson Samuel 1689-1761 -- Literary style;

Gordon Fulton provides a fascinating new study of styles in Samuel Richardson's masterpiece, Clarissa, connecting the style the characters deploy in their speech and letters with their positions in society. Fulton argues that the novel is a critical examination of the relationship between language and power and an expression of Richardson's own understanding of social interaction as a struggle for personal pre-eminence and sexual dominance.


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