| «Clarissa» 's Narrators Contributor(s): Lams, Victor J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820451622 ISBN-13: 9780820451626 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $77.52 Product Type: Hardcover Published: November 2001 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Psychology | Social Psychology |
| Dewey: 823.6 |
| LCCN: 00056403 |
| Series: Studies in Ethnolinguistics |
| Physical Information: 172 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Challenging the view that Samuel Richardson's eighteenth-century epistolary novel Clarissa is a shapeless sequence of letters, this book argues that the novel has an action structure consisting of five act-like movements that emerge from the round robin transfer of narrative dominance: from the interiorizing drama enacted on the epistolary stage first by Clarissa's, then by Lovelace's self-reflections on just-past events, to Belford's more conventionally novelistic other-reflective narrative that ends the history. This book contrasts Clarissa's use of soliloquy to achieve self-understanding with Lovelace's employment of dramatic monologue to enable self-deception. Finally, Miss Howe's and Belford's performances in epistolary friendship are evaluated. |