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