"I shall enter her heart": fetishizing feeling in Clarissa.

From: Studies in the Novel | Date: December 22, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

In its barest narrative terms, Samuel Richardson's Clarissa, or The History of a Young Lady (1747-1748) is a novel in letters about bow a notorious libertine kidnaps and rapes a young woman to seek revenge on her family and test her virtue. The young woman, exceptional in almost every regard from the transcendental to the mundane--in beauty, writing, wit, needlework, French, housekeeping, chastity and worship of God--unknowingly walks into the charming libertine's schemes by writing to him in an attempt to reform him, and rebelling against her parents, who want her to marry ...

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