Clarissa's Ciphers : Meaning and Disruption in Richardson's Clarissa /
Castle, Terry,
Clarissa's Ciphers : Meaning and Disruption in Richardson's Clarissa / Terry Castle. - 1 online resource (204 pages). - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
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.
Open Access
"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."--Provided by publisher
9781501706936
RICHARDSON, SAMUEL, 1689-1761. CLARISSA.
Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761. Clarissa.
Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761. Clarissa.
Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761. Clarissa.
Clarissa (Richardson, Samuel)
REACCION CRITICA DE LECTORES.
MUJERES EN LITERATURA.
Women and literature
Reader-response criticism
Rape victims in literature
Epistolary fiction, English
Women in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Victimes de viol dans la litterature.
Femmes et litterature--Histoire--Angleterre--18e siecle.
Esthetique de la reception.
Femmes dans la litterature.
Women in literature.
Reader-response criticism.
Rape victims in literature.
Women and literature--History--England--18th century.
Epistolary fiction, English--History and criticism.
England
History
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Clarissa's Ciphers : Meaning and Disruption in Richardson's Clarissa / Terry Castle. - 1 online resource (204 pages). - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
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.
Open Access
"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."--Provided by publisher
9781501706936
RICHARDSON, SAMUEL, 1689-1761. CLARISSA.
Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761. Clarissa.
Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761. Clarissa.
Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761. Clarissa.
Clarissa (Richardson, Samuel)
REACCION CRITICA DE LECTORES.
MUJERES EN LITERATURA.
Women and literature
Reader-response criticism
Rape victims in literature
Epistolary fiction, English
Women in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Victimes de viol dans la litterature.
Femmes et litterature--Histoire--Angleterre--18e siecle.
Esthetique de la reception.
Femmes dans la litterature.
Women in literature.
Reader-response criticism.
Rape victims in literature.
Women and literature--History--England--18th century.
Epistolary fiction, English--History and criticism.
England
History
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.