Styles of meaning and meanings of style in Richardson's Clarissa / Gordon D. Fulton.

Using socially and culturally engaged discourse stylistics, Fulton explores ideologies of social formation, gender, and sexuality in the novel. The first part of the study, "Styles of Meaning," discusses Richardson's use of the genres of sententiousness (moral sentiments and proverbs)...

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Main Author: Fulton, Gordon D.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1999.
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on the Text
  • 1 Introduction: A Stylistic Approach to Clarissa
  • PART ONE: STYLES OF MEANING
  • 2 Proverbs and the Language of Control
  • 3 The Moral Sentiment as a Dialogic Style of Meaning
  • PART TWO: MEANINGS OF STYLE
  • 4 Surprised by Style: Lovelace, Clarissa, and Language for Love
  • 5 Why Look at Clarissa? Physical Description and Richardson's Revision of Libertine Style
  • 6 Sentimental Libertinism: Richardson's Reform of Libertine Desire
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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