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Models of Reading
Martha J. Koehler
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Description for Models of Reading
Paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 167 x 23. Weight in Grams: 649.
Two predominant critical assumptions about Samuel Richardson—that he is a feminist and that his novels aim to exert a straightforward didactic influence on readers—are challenged by this comparative study of female exemplarity in Clarissa, Sir Charles Grandison, Evelina, and Les Liaisons dangereuses in a theoretically and historically informed context, in order to investigate the ideologically charged terraine of models and modeling in eighteenth-century epistolary fiction. The possibility of the coherent and imitable model, both of female virtue and of stable communication, is negated by the persistence of "parasites" within the narrative exchanges that attempt to create these ideals. The female ... Read more
Two predominant critical assumptions about Samuel Richardson—that he is a feminist and that his novels aim to exert a straightforward didactic influence on readers—are challenged by this comparative study of female exemplarity in Clarissa, Sir Charles Grandison, Evelina, and Les Liaisons dangereuses in a theoretically and historically informed context, in order to investigate the ideologically charged terraine of models and modeling in eighteenth-century epistolary fiction. The possibility of the coherent and imitable model, both of female virtue and of stable communication, is negated by the persistence of "parasites" within the narrative exchanges that attempt to create these ideals. The female ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611482096
SKU
V9781611482096
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About Martha J. Koehler
Martha J. Koehler is associate professor of English at University of Pittsburgh, Greensburg.
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