Ebook: Clarissa's Ciphers: Meaning and Disruption in Richardson's Clarissa
Author: Castle Terry, Richardson Samuel
- Tags: Epistolary fiction English, Epistolary fiction English--History and criticism, Literary Criticism--European--English Irish Scottish Welsh, Richardson Samuel 1689-1761, Women and literature, Women and literature--England--History--18th century, Electronic books, Criticism interpretation etc., History, Government publication, Richardson Samuel -- 1689-1761, Epistolary fiction English -- History and criticism, Women and literature -- England -- History -- 18th century, Literary Criticism -- European
- Year: 2016
- Publisher: CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
- City: England;Ithaca;N.Y
- Language: English
- epub
As Samuel Richardson's 'exemplar to her sex, ' Clarissa in the eponymous novel published in 1748 is the paradigmatic female victim. In Clarissa's Ciphers, Terry Castle delineates the ways in which, in a world where only voice carries authority, Clarissa is repeatedly silenced, both metaphorically and literally. A victim of rape, she is first a victim of hermeneutic abuse. Drawing on feminist criticism and hermeneutic theory, Castle examines the question of authority in the novel. By tracing the patterns of abuse and exploitation that occur when meanings are arbitrarily and violently imposed, she explores the sexual politics of reading.
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