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Clarissa by Samuel Richardson

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Quotations
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Clarissa Quotes
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Singularity shows something wrong in the...


Project Gutenberg eBook
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Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 eBook
95,192 words, approx. 317 pages
The complete online text of Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 by Samuel Richardson.


Author Biography

Name: Samuel Richardson
Birth Date: July 31, 1689
Death Date: July 4, 1761
Place of Birth: Derbyshire, England
Place of Death: London, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: novelist

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Biography of Samuel Richardson
1199 words, approx. 4 pages
The English novelist Samuel Richardson (1689-1761) brought dramatic intensity and psychological insight to the epistolary novel. Fiction, including the novel told in letters, had become popular in England before Samuel Richardson's time, but he was the f...
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Biography of Samuel Richardson
19128 words, approx. 63.8 pages
Samuel Richardson, often in his own time compared to Shakespeare for universality, originality, and emotional truth, is generally acknowledged as the founder of a new school of novel writing in England. The new novel had its origins partly in English dom...
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Biography of Samuel Richardson
17585 words, approx. 58.6 pages
Samuel Richardson, often in his own time compared to Shakespeare for universality, originality, and emotional truth, is generally acknowledged as the founder of a new school of novel writing in England. The new novel had its origins partly in English dom...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Clarissa Information
406 words, approx. 1 pages
Samuel Richardson's Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady epistolary novel, published in 1748, tells the tragic story of a heroine whose quest for virtue is continually thwarted by her family. It is commonly cited as the longest novel in the English...


News and Journals
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The New York Observer
A Pair of True Believers, Each With Her Own Aesthetic
1/21/2007: 992 words, approx. 3 pages
Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name, by Vendela Vida. Ecco, 226 pages, $23.95. The impulse to lump these two novels together is understandable, since Heidi Julavits and Vendela Vida are co-founders of The Believer (a literary journal I’ve written for—just once.) But there’s...
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Woman's Day
5 Ways to Build a Great Relationship with Your Child's Teacher
9/12/2006: 262 words, approx. 1 pages
Introduce Yourself Julie Paolucci, a mom of five in Newington, Connecticut, sends a note of introduction to each of her children’s teachers. “I include relevant family information and anything specific the teacher needs to know about my child,” says Julie. Keep in Touch “I really...
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The New York Observer
Vasif Kortun, Biennial Man
4/21/2006: 608 words, approx. 2 pages
Clarissa Dalrymple "Next year, in 2007, I think it's like the year of the suicide—the art world commits suicide," said Vasif Kortun. "It starts with Moscow, and then there's the Emirates, and then there's Venice, then in Istanbul; there's Documenta, there is Muenster Sculpture Projects—there's...
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AP News
Iran hangs man despite review order
12/7/2007: 482 words, approx. 2 pages
A man convicted of raping three boys when he was 13 years old has been hanged despite a chief justice's order that the case be reviewed, the his lawyer and a U.S. rights group said Thursday.Makwan Moloudzadeh was executed late Tuesday and his family told...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by William Beatty Warner
8,439 words, approx. 28 pages
Below, Warner explores Richardson's sometimes counterproductive attempts at asserting authorial control over the readers of Clarissa.
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Critical Essay by Donald R. Wehrs
7,564 words, approx. 25 pages
In the following essay, Wehr argues that deconstructionist interpretations of Samuel Richardson's Clarissa miss the ways the author uses irony to impose a single, moralizing narrative judgment on the story's characters and actions.
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Critical Essay by Lois E. Bueler
7,525 words, approx. 25 pages
In the following excerpt, Bueler describes various plotcombining techniques used in Clarissa, including the sharing of characters and events throughout the novel's three plots, and the use of dramatic elements in letters exchanged between characters.
 


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