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Clarissa's Ciphers Meaning and Disruption in Richardson's Clarissa / Terry Castle.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Castle, Terry.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761. Clarissa.
- Reader-response criticism.
- Rape victims in literature.
- Women and literature--England--History--18th century.
- Women and literature.
- Epistolary fiction, English--History and criticism.
- Epistolary fiction, English.
- Genre:
- Anthologies
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (206 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Cornell University Press 1982
- Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1982.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- 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 examines the question of authority in the novel. By tracing the patterns of abuse and exploitation that occur when meanings are arbitrarily and violently imposed, she explores the sexual politics of reading.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 . Clarissa by Halves
- 2. Discovering Reading
- 3. Reading the Letter, Reading the World
- 4. Interrupting "Miss Clary"
- 5. Denatured Signs
- 6. The Voyage Out
- 7. The Death of the Author: Clarissa's Coffin
- 8. The Death of the Author: Richardson and the Reader
- 9. Epilogue: The Reader Lives
- Bibliographic Postscript
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 189-196.
- This eBook is made available Open Access. Unless otherwise specified in the content, the work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781501706936
- 1501706934
- 9781501706943
- 1501706942
- OCLC:
- 560917090
- Access Restriction:
- Open access Unrestricted online access
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