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

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

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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...