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Author Castle, Terry, author.

Title Clarissa's ciphers : meaning & disruption in Richardson's "Clarissa" / Terry Castle.

Publication Info. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 1982.

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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note Print version record.
Contents 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.
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Summary "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."--Provided by publisher
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Subject Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761. Clarissa.
Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761. Clarissa.
Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761. Clarissa.
Clarissa (Richardson, Samuel)
RICHARDSON, SAMUEL, 1689-1761. CLARISSA.
Epistolary fiction, English -- History and criticism.
Women and literature -- England -- History -- 18th century.
Rape victims in literature.
Reader-response criticism.
Women in literature.
Femmes dans la littérature.
Esthétique de la réception.
Femmes et littérature -- Angleterre -- Histoire -- 18e siècle.
Victimes de viol dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Women in literature
Epistolary fiction, English
Rape victims in literature
Reader-response criticism
Women and literature
England
MUJERES EN LITERATURA.
REACCION CRITICA DE LECTORES.
Chronological Term 1700-1799
Indexed Term hermeneutics
Samuel Richardson
sexual politics
reader-response criticism
Clarissa
feminist criticism
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Other Form: Print version: Clarissa's ciphers. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1982 0801414954 (DLC) 82002460
ISBN 1501706934
1501706942
9781501706943
9781501707148
1501707140
9780801414954
0801414954
9781501706936 (electronic bk.)
Standard No. AU@ 000060413219
GBVCP 871326396
AU@ 000075748868

 
    
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