Clarissa's Ciphers: Meaning and Disruption in Richardson's Clarissa

by Terry Castle

Book Overview

As Samuel Richardson's 'exemplar to her sex, ' Clarissa in the eponymous novel published in 1748 is the paradigmatic female victim. In Clarissa's Ciphers, Terry Castle delineates the ways in which, in a world where only voice carries authority, Clarissa is repeatedly silenced, both metaphorically and literally. A victim of rape, she is first a victim of hermeneutic abuse. Drawing on feminist criticism and hermeneutic theory, Castle...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801414954
• ISBN13: 9780801414954
• Release Date: July 1982
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher