Revisiting Richardson / edited by Rebecca Anne Barr and Bonnie Latimer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barr, Rebecca Anne, editor.

Latimer, Bonnie, editor.

Series:

Transits : literature, thought & culture, 1650-1850

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Richardson, Samuel.

English literature--18th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Physical Description:

vi, 192 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, [2025]

Summary:

"The preoccupations of eighteenth-century novelist Samuel Richardson-the inequities of gender and sexuality; race and white femininity; masculinity, sadism, and control; religion and selfhood; authorship and artistic form-continue to resonate with contemporary readers. This fresh collection reconsiders his oeuvre, expanding and significantly updating critical debate on its meaning and importance. In these lively and engaging essays, contributors examine historically overlooked works, provide new readings of his best-known novels Pamela and Clarissa, and stake a serious claim for the importance of his final novel, Sir Charles Grandison. Diverse, inventive, and provocative, these essays demonstrate the complexity, relevance, and surprising legacies of Richardson's novels and characters-finding traces in post-conceptual poetry, detective fiction, and in the fantasies of historical romance. Revisiting Richardson reflects on a decade of scholarship while delivering innovative perspectives on an author whose work continues to be indispensable for understanding the history of the novel"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Citizens of the future : the apprentice's Vade Mecum in context / Bonnie Latimer

Queer time in Pamela / Declan Kavanagh

"Happy, happy, happy, thrice happy Pamela"? : Gendered happiness and the happiness gap in Pamela and Pamela II / Heather Ann Ladd

Conceptual Richardson / Amelia Dale

Clarissa with Sade : persecution and plot after Richardson / Samuel Rowe

Clarissa and white supremacy : race, gender and erasure / Kerry Sinanan

Misogyny and the male virgin in Sir Charles Grandison / Rebecca Anne Barr

Solving for y : fictive kinship and character in the History of Sir Charles Grandison / Sarah Berkowitz

"One in a hundred" : extending the influence of Richardson's Sir Charles Grandison / E. Derek Taylor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-182) and index.

ISBN:

9781684485666

1684485665

9781684485659

1684485657

OCLC:

1451659507