Studies in the Novel, March 22nd, 1998
RIVERO, ALBERT J., (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996). 232 pp. $39.50. Hostile readers, confusing Samuel Richardson with his heroines, have sometimes complained, with Samuel Johnson, that there is always something Richardson prefers to the truth. The editor of this volume of new essays, Albert J. Rivero, however, presents Richardson's ambiguity not as duplicity but as a rich textual multivalence that makes his novels hospitable to a medley of new interpretations. Observing that Pamela has already unleashed a torrent of critical interpretation, and that The Clarissa Project (several of whose...
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