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This collection reconsiders the works of the eighteenth-century novelist Samuel Richardson. These lively essays examine overlooked works, provide new readings of
Pamela and
Clarissa, and show how Richardson’s preoccupations—gender and sexuality; race and white femininity; masculinity, sadism, and control; religion and selfhood; authorship and artistic form—resonate with contemporary readers.
List of contents
Introduction
Rebecca Anne Barr and Bonnie Latimer 1 Citizens of the Future:
The Apprentice’s Vade Mecum in Context
Bonnie Latimer 2 Queer Time in
PamelaDeclan Kavanagh 3 “Happy, happy, happy, thrice happy Pamela”?: Gendered Happiness and the Happiness Gap in
Pamela and
Pamela IIHeather Ann Ladd 4 Conceptual Richardson
Amelia Dale 5
Clarissa with Sade: Persecution and Plot after Richardson
Samuel Rowe 6
Clarissa and White Supremacy: Race, Gender and Erasure
Kerry Sinanan 7 Misogyny and the Male Virgin in
Sir Charles GrandisonRebecca Anne Barr 8 Solving for Y: Fictive Kinship and Character in
The History of Sir Charles GrandisonSarah Berkowitz 9 “One in a Hundred”: Extending the Influence of Richardson’s
Sir Charles GrandisonE. Derek Taylor Acknowledgments
Bibliography
About the Contributors
Index
Introduction 1
Rebecca Anne Barr and Bonnie Latimer
1 Citizens of the Future:
The Apprentice’s Vade
Mecum in Context 16
Bonnie Latimer
2 Queer Time in Pamela 32
Declan Kavanagh
3 “Happy, Happy, Happy, Thrice Happy Pamela”?
Gendered Happiness and the Happiness Gap
in Pamela and Pamela II 48
Heather Ladd
4 Conceptual Richardson 67
Amelia Dale
5 Clarissa
with Sade: Persecution and Plot
after
Richardson 85
Samuel Rowe
6 Clarissa
and White Supremacy: Race, Gender,
and Erasure 102
Kerry Sinanan
7 Misogyny and the Male Virgin in
Sir Charles Grandison 122
Rebecca Anne Barr
8 Solving for Y: Fictive Kinship and Character
in The History of Sir Charles Grandison 139
Sarah Berkowitz
569-
9 “One in a Hundred”: Extending the Influence of
Richardson’s Sir Charles Grandison 153
E. Derek Taylor
Acknowledgments
167
Bibliography 169
Notes on Contributors 183
Index 000
About the author
REBECCA ANNE BARR is an associate professor in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge in the UK. She has published widely on gender, sexual violence, and the novel, and is coeditor of
Bellies, Bowels, and Entrails in the Eighteenth Century and
Ireland and Masculinities in History.
BONNIE LATIMER is a professor of Restoration and eighteenth-century literature at the University of Southampton in the UK, where she is also the associate dean for education in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. She has published on Richardson and various other eighteenth-century topics.
