Clarissa's Ciphers: Meaning and Disruption in Richardson's Clarissa

Author/Contributor(s):	Castle, Terry
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Date:	11/01/2016
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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...