E106 Clarissa and Criticism|| Winter 2014

 

Bibliography
Arranged chronologically

 
  • A. H. Upham, "A Parallel for Richardson's Clarissa," Modern Languate Notes, Vol. 28, No. 4 (Apr., 1913), pp. 103-105.
  • Alan D. McKillop, Samuel Richardson, Printer and Novelist (Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1936; repr. Shoe String Press), 1960.
  • T. C. Duncan Eaves and Ben D. Kimpel, Samuel Richardson, A Biography (Oxford: Clarendon) 1971.
  • Mark Kinkead-Weekes, Samuel Richardson: Dramatic Novelist (Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ. Press, 1973).
  • Margaret Anne Doody, A Natural Passion: A Study of the Novels of Samuel Richardson (Oxford: Clarendon, 1974).
  • John Traugott, “Clarissa’s Richardson: An Essay to Find the Reader,” in English Literature in the Age of Disguise, ed. Maximillian Novak, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977.
  • Judith Wilt, He Could Go No Farther: A Modest Proposal about Lovelace and Clarissa, PMLA, Vol. 92, No. 1 (Jan., 1977), pp. 19-32. 
  • William Warner, Proposal and Habitation: The Temporality and Authority of Interpretation in and about a Scene of Richardson's Clarissa boundary 2, Vol. 7, No. 2, Revisions of the Anglo-American Tradition: Part 1 (Winter, 1979), pp. 169-200. 
  • William Warner, Reading Clarissa: The struggles of interpretation. New Haven: Yale, 1979. 
  • Carol Houlihan Flynn, Samuel Richardson: A Man of Letters (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1982).
  • Paul Gabriel Bouce, ed. Sexuality in eighteenth-century Novels. Manchester, 1982.
    Terry Eagleton, The Rape of Clarissa: Writing, Sexuality, and Class Struggle in Samuel Richardson. Minnesota, 1982. 
  • Terry Castle, Clarissa's Ciphers: Meaning & Disruption in Richardson's "Clarissa." 1982.
  • Ian Donaldson, The Rape of Lucretia: A Myth and its Transformations . Oxford: Clarendon, 1982.
  • Florian Stuber, On Fathers and Authority in Clarissa, Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 25, No. 3, Restoration and Eighteenth Century (Summer, 1985), pp. 557-574.
  • John Zomchick, "Tame Spirits, Brave Fellows, and the Web of Law: Robert Lovelace's Legalistic Conscience," ELH, Vol. 53, No. 1 (Spring, 1986), pp. 99-120. This article became part of his book Family and the Law in Eighteenth-Century Fiction (Cambridge, 1993).
  • Sylvana Tomaselli & Roy Porter (eds), Rape. Oxford: Blackwell, 1986. Has several useful articles, including Jennifer Temkin, Women, Rape and Law Reform, and Roy Porter, Rape: Does it Have a Historical Meaning? 
  • Frances Ferguson, "Rape and the Rise of the Novel," Representations 20 (1987) 88-112. This article is part of a special issue called Misogyny, Misandry, and Misanthropy.

  • Samuel Richardson, Tercentenary Essays, ed., Margaret Anne Doody and Peter Sabor. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1989.
Contents

1.Teaching Pamela /Florian Stuber 2. Pamela: rethinking arcadia /Gillian Beer 3. Truth and storytelling in Clarissa /John Dussinger 4. Remapping London: Clarissa and the woman in the window /Edward Copeland 5. Lovelace and the paradoxes of libertinism /James Grantham Turner 6. Richardson's Meditations: Clarissa's Clarissa Tom Keymer 7. Identity and character in Sir Charles Grandison /Margaret Anne Doody 8. The pains of compliance in Sir Charles Grandison  /Carol Houlihan Flynn 9. Richardson's 'Speaking Pictures' /Janet E. Aikens 10. Unravelling the 'Cord which ties good men to good men': male friendship in Richardson's novels /David Robinson 11. Richardson: original or learned genius? /Jocelyn Harris 12. 'A Young, a Richardson, or a Johnson': lines of cultural force in the age of Richardson /Pat Rogers 13. 'A novel in a series of letters by a lady': Richardson and some Richardsonian novels /Isobel Grundy 14. Publishing Richardson's correspondence: the 'necessary office of selection' /Peter Sabor 15. The rise of Richardson criticism /Siobhan Kilfeather
  • Richard Hannaford, "Playing her dead hand: Clarissa's posthumous letters", Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 35:1 (1993:Spring) p.79 
  • James Grantham Turner, "Richardson and His Circle," in The Columbia History of the British Novel, ed. John Richetti (New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1994), pp. 73-101.
  • Katherine Kittredge, "Men-Women and Womanish Men: Androgyny in Richardson's Clarissa," Modern Language Studies, Vol. 24, No. 2 (Spring, 1994), pp. 20-26.
  • Murray L. Brown, ed., "Refiguring Richardson's Clarissa," Studies in the Literary Imagination 28 (Spring 1995).
  • Joy Kyunghae Lee, "The Commodification of Virtue: Chastity and the Virginal Body in Richardson's Clarissa," The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 36 (Spring 1995): 38-54. 
  • Margaret Anne Doody, "Samuel Richardson: Fiction and Knowledge," in The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, ed. John Richetti (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1996), pp. 90-119.
  • Janine Barchas, "The Engraved Score in Clarissa: An Intersection of Music, Narrative, and Graphic Design," Eight.eenth-Century-Life, 1996 May, 20:2, 1-20.
  • Mary Patricia Martin, Reading Reform in Richardson's Clarissa, Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 37, No. 3, Restoration and Eighteenth Century (Summer, 1997), pp. 595-614. 
  • Clarissa and her readers: new essays for the Clarissa Project, ed. and introd . Carol Houlihan Flynn and Edward Copeland. New York: AMS Press, 1999.

Contents

Richardson and his readers / Carol Houlihan Flynn -- Reclassifying Clarissa / Nancy Armstrong -- Clarissa’s cruelty / Jayne Elizabeth Lewis -- Clarissa and early female fiction / Jerry C. Beasley -- Lady Bradshaigh reads and writes Clarissa / Janice Broder -- Clarissa’s daughters / Ruth Perry -- Belforded over / Julia Genster -- Clarissa versus Lovelace / Serge Soupel -- Dryden’s part in Clarissa / Rachel Trickett -- Reading the body in Clarissa / Julie McMaster -- Fatal letters / David Marshall -- Seduction pursued by other means / Isobel Grundy -- Eighteenth-century abduction laws and Clarissa / Jan I. Schwarz

 

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