Clarissa's Narrators

by Victor J. Lams

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Format Hardback or Cased Book

Book Series American University Studies Series 4: English Language and Literature

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 1800 Behavioural 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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