Samuel Richardson

Samuel Richardson
Author: John J. Carroll
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1969
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:
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In Samuel Richardson's day, critical response to his books ranged from ecstatic praise to condescension and condemnation. Twentieth-century critics have not only reassessed his work, but have closely examined his themes and techniques. The essays herein represent the dominant concerns of modern Richardsonian criticism, examining his output as a craftsman, psychological novelist, and commentator on the social and economic forces of his day. The enormous popularity of Richardson's Pamela and Clarissa during his lifetime attests to the author's craftsmanship and psychological awareness--two qualities which are fully examined in this critical study.

New Essays on Samuel Richardson

New Essays on Samuel Richardson
Author: Albert J. Rivero
Publisher:
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1996
Genre: Epistolary fiction, English
ISBN: 9780333654187
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Recent years have witnessed renewed critical interest in the works of Samuel Richardson. This volume brings together a group of well-respected scholars to examine how and why the works of Richardson continue to intrigue us. As a whole, the essays reveal Richardson to be a writer constantly contradicting himself, striving not to be misunderstood. His attraction and appeal to deconstructionists, reader-response critics, Marxists, and feminists are analyzed and made comprehensible. Grappling with issues which continue to trouble us, Richardson appears as an artist writing to our historical moment, engaging us in a conversation now joined by the essays in this collection. Offering a variety of critical perspectives, New Essays on Samuel Richardson sheds light on the importance of this writer and reveals his relevance to the modern day.

The Contested Castle

The Contested Castle
Author: Kate Ferguson Ellis
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 250
Release: 1989
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780252060489
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The Gothic novel emerged out of the romantic mist alongside a new conception of the home as a separate sphere for women. Looking at novels from Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Kate Ferguson Ellis investigates the relationship between these two phenomena of middle-class culture--the idealization of the home and the popularity of the Gothic--and explores how both male and female authors used the Gothic novel to challenge the false claim of home as a safe, protected place. Linking terror -- the most important ingredient of the Gothic novel -- to acts of transgression, Ellis shows how houses in Gothic fiction imprison those inside them, while those locked outside wander the earth plotting their return and their revenge.

Samuel Richardson

Samuel Richardson
Author: Carol Houlihan Flynn
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2014-07-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1400854040
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Adding a lively voice to Richardsonian studies, Carol Houlihan Flynn traces the complex workings of a major literary imagination. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.