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In developing a gender theory for analysing Samuel Richardson's three novels - "Pamela", "Clarissa", and "Sir Charles Grandison" - the author argues that these novels of sexual threat sometimes expose the extraordinary labour required to construct and maintain the 18th-century ideology of gender.

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"Gwilliam's fine book is far from short of historical grounding, and one of its special pleasures comes in its use of fugitive sources to measure the subtler explorations of Richardson's fiction. . . . Gwilliam deftly combines theoretical vigilance with a sure sense of eighteenth-century discourses about sexuality and gender and some...brilliant displays of close reading." -- Eighteenth-Century Fiction

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Introduction 1. Pamela and the duplicitous body of femininity 2. Like Tiresias: knowing the sex in Clarrisa 3. The good man, alas!: The History of Sir Charles Grandison and the triumph of masculinity Notes Index.

Samuel Richardsons Fictions of Gender

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      Publisher: Stanford University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/08/1993
      ISBN13: 9780804721165, 978-0804721165
      ISBN10: 0804721165

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In developing a gender theory for analysing Samuel Richardson's three novels - "Pamela", "Clarissa", and "Sir Charles Grandison" - the author argues that these novels of sexual threat sometimes expose the extraordinary labour required to construct and maintain the 18th-century ideology of gender.

      Trade Review
      "Gwilliam's fine book is far from short of historical grounding, and one of its special pleasures comes in its use of fugitive sources to measure the subtler explorations of Richardson's fiction. . . . Gwilliam deftly combines theoretical vigilance with a sure sense of eighteenth-century discourses about sexuality and gender and some...brilliant displays of close reading." -- Eighteenth-Century Fiction

      Table of Contents
      Introduction 1. Pamela and the duplicitous body of femininity 2. Like Tiresias: knowing the sex in Clarrisa 3. The good man, alas!: The History of Sir Charles Grandison and the triumph of masculinity Notes Index.

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