Clarissa's Narrators
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0820451622
ISBN-13
9780820451626
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 5th, 2001
Print length
172 Pages
Weight
384 grams
Dimensions
16.00 x 23.70 x 1.50 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800Behavioural theory (Behaviourism)
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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.
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