Clarissa's Ciphers : Meaning and Disruption in Richardson's Clarissa /

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, bot...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Castle, Terry (Author, Verfasser.)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	In English.
Published:	Ithaca, N.Y. Cornell University Press [2016]
Subjects:	England. Gender Studies. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 . Clarissa by Halves
2. Discovering Reading
3. Reading the Letter, Reading the World
4. Interrupting "Miss Clary"
5. Denatured Signs
6. The Voyage Out
7. The Death of the Author: Clarissa's Coffin
8. The Death of the Author: Richardson and the Reader
9. Epilogue: The Reader Lives
Bibliographic Postscript
Index