| Anger, Guilt, and the Psychology of the Self in «Clarissa» Contributor(s): Lams, Victor J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820441600 ISBN-13: 9780820441603 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $57.90 Product Type: Hardcover Published: September 1999 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Psychology | Social Psychology - Religion | Psychology Of Religion |
| Dewey: 823.6 |
| LCCN: 98-27378 |
| Series: American University Studies |
| Physical Information: 210 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Samuel Richardson's highly acclaimed "Clarissa," commonly read as a courtship novel, is in fact a story about the transaction between Robert Lovelace, a pathological narcissist, and Clarissa Harlowe, his victim, whom he idealizes, yet is compelled to destroy. "Anger, Guilt, and the Psychology of the Self in 'Clarissa'" shows the narcissistic self-structure that explains Lovelace's anger and need for revenge. It shows, too, the process by which, after being raped, Clarissa reconstructs her self through penitential mourning and deepens her Christian understanding by abandoning her "de facto" Pelagianism when her own experience of evil provides empirical evidence for Original Sin. |