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) to engage questions of ideology. Fulton shows how Richardson draws on the socially significant difference between proverbs and maxims to develop contrasting styles in which his characters establish and defend personal identities in relation to family and friends. The second part, "Meanings of Style," explores ways in which meanings created through linguistic choices in the critical domains of gender and sexuality both sustain and sometimes betray characters struggling either to control or to resist being controlled by others.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 823/.6
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 0773518495 9780773567849
- LCCN
- PR3664.C43
- LCCN Item number
- F84 1999eb
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- CaBNVSL
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- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xiv, 250 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00201006 (OCoLC)243586928 (CaOOCEL)400620
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Acknowledgments 8
- A Note on the Text 12
- 1 Introduction: A Stylistic Approach to Clarissa 18
- PART ONE: STYLES OF MEANING 46
- 2 Proverbs and the Language of Control 48
- 3 The Moral Sentiment as a Dialogic Style of Meaning 67
- PART TWO: MEANINGS OF STYLE 96
- 4 Surprised by Style: Lovelace, Clarissa, and Language for Love 98
- 5 Why Look at Clarissa? Physical Description and Richardson's Revision of Libertine Style 127
- 6 Sentimental Libertinism: Richardson's Reform of Libertine Desire 155
- Notes 190
- Bibliography 244
- Index 260
- A 260
- B 260
- C 260
- D 261
- E 261
- F 261
- G 262
- H 262
- I 262
- J 262
- K 262
- L 263
- M 263
- N 263
- O 264
- P 264
- R 264
- S 265
- T 265
- U 265
- V 265
- W 265
- Y 265
