Richardson's 'Clarissa' and the Eighteenth-Century Reader

by Tom Keymer

Written as a collection of letters in which very different accounts of the action are unsupervised by sustained authorial comment, Richardson's novel Clarissa offers an extreme example of the capacity of narrative to give the reader final responsibility for resolving or construing meaning. It is paradoxical then that its author was a writer committed to avowedly didactic goals. Tom Keymer counters the tendency of recent critics to suggest that Clarissa's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521604400
• ISBN13: 9780521604406
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"