Making Gender, Culture, and the Self in the Fiction of Samuel Richardson The Novel Individual |
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| Author:
| Latimer, Bonnie |
| Series title: | British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4094-4632-3 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2013 |
| Publisher: | Routledge
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $259.00 |
Book Description:
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Proposing that Samuel Richardson's novels were crucial for the construction of female individuality in the mid-eighteenth century, Latimer argues that Grandison must be recognised as Richardson's final word on his re-envisioning of the gendered self. She calls for a rigorous re-reading of the novel as a basis for re-assessing Richardson's fictional oeuvre that has implications for fresh thinking about the eighteenth-century novel.
Proposing that Samuel Richardson's novels were crucial for the construction of female individuality in the mid-eighteenth century, Latimer argues that Grandison must be recognised as Richardson's final word on his re-envisioning of the gendered self. She calls for a rigorous re-reading of the novel as a basis for re-assessing Richardson's fictional oeuvre that has implications for fresh thinking about the eighteenth-century novel.