Making gender, culture, and the self in the fiction of Samuel Richardson : the novel individual / by Bonnie Latimer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Latimer, Bonnie.

Series:

British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century

British literature in context in the long eighteenth century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761--Criticism and interpretation.

Richardson, Samuel.

Gender identity in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Proposing that Samuel Richardson's novels were crucial for the construction of female individuality in the mid-eighteenth century, Latimer argues that Grandison must be recognised as Richardson's final word on his re-envisioning of the gendered self. She calls for a rigorous rereading of the novel as a basis for reassessing Richardson's fictional oeuvre that has implications for fresh thinking about the eighteenth-century novel.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction Pigtails and Pope's Poetry; 1 The Modern Individual; 2 The Manhood of the Mind; 3 The Moral Economy; 4 The Practice of Piety; 5 The Intimate Contract; Afterword; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-315-59331-9

1-317-10240-1

1-317-10239-8

1-283-80501-4

1-4094-4633-6

9781315593319

OCLC:

818846540