Samuel Richardson's Fictions of Gender

by Tassie Gwilliam

Book Overview

In developing a new gender theory for analyzing Samuel Richardson's three major novels - Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison - the author argues that these novels of sexual threat expose, sometimes unwillingly, the extraordinary labor required to construct and maintain the eighteenth-century ideology of gender, that apparently natural dream of perfect symmetry between the sexes. The instability of that model is revealed notably in Richardson's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804721165
• ISBN13: 9780804721165
• Release Date: August 1993
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"