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Written as a collection of letters in which very different accounts of the action are unsupervised by sustained authorial comment, Richardson's novel Clarissa offers an extreme example of the capacity of narrative to give the reader final responsibility for resolving or construing meaning. It is paradoxical then that its author was a writer committed to avowedly didactic goals. Tom Keymer counters the tendency of recent critics to suggest that Clarissa's textual indeterminacy defeats these goals by arguing that Richardson pursues subtler and more generous means of educating his readers by making them 'if not Authors, Carvers' of the text. Discussing Richardson's use of the epistolary form throughout his career, Keymer goes on to focus in detail on the three instalments in which Clarissa was first published, drawing on the documented responses of its first readers to illuminate his technique as a writer and set the novel in its contemporary ethical, political and ideological context.

820 "17" RICHARDSON, SAMUEL --- 820-6 --- 82:396 --- 82.085.43 --- 028 --- Authors and readers --- -Reader-response criticism --- Books and reading --- -Epistolary fiction, English --- -Women and literature --- -Literature --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Choice of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Literature --- Reading, Choice of --- Reading and books --- Reading habits --- Reading public --- Reading --- Reading interests --- Reading promotion --- Reader-oriented criticism --- Reception aesthetics --- Criticism --- Readers and authors --- Authorship --- 028 Lezen. Lectuur --- Lezen. Lectuur --- 82.085.43 Literaire receptie --- Literaire receptie --- 82:396 Literatuur en feminisme --- Literatuur en feminisme --- 820-6 Engelse literatuur: brief --- Engelse literatuur: brief --- English epistolary fiction --- English fiction --- 820 "17" RICHARDSON, SAMUEL Engelse literatuur--18e eeuw. Periode 1700-1799--RICHARDSON, SAMUEL --- Engelse literatuur--18e eeuw. Periode 1700-1799--RICHARDSON, SAMUEL --- History --- -History --- -History and criticism --- -Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Richardson, Samuel --- Richardson, S. --- -Reader-oriented criticism --- -English fiction --- -English epistolary fiction --- Arts and Humanities --- Women and literature --- Epistolary fiction, English --- Rape victims in literature. --- Reader-response criticism. --- History and criticism. --- Richardson, Samuel, --- Rape victims in literature --- Reader-response criticism --- History and criticism --- Appraisal --- -Richardson, Samuel

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Thematology --- English literature --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1800-1899

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This 2004 volume offers an introduction to British literature that challenges the traditional divide between eighteenth-century and Romantic studies. Contributors explore the development of literary genres and modes through a period of rapid change. They show how literature was shaped by historical factors including the development of the book trade, the rise of literary criticism and the expansion of commercial society and empire. The first part of the volume focuses on broad themes including taste and aesthetics, national identity and empire, and key cultural trends such as sensibility and the gothic. The second part pays close attention to the work of individual writers including Sterne, Blake, Barbauld and Austen, and to the role of literary schools such as the Lake and Cockney schools. The wide scope of the collection, juxtaposing canonical authors with those now gaining new attention from scholars, makes it essential reading for students of eighteenth-century literature and Romanticism.

English literature --- Littérature anglaise --- History and criticism --- Handbooks, manuals, etc. --- Histoire et critique --- Guides, manuels, etc. --- 19e siècle --- Littérature anglaise --- 19e siècle --- English --- English Literature --- Languages & Literatures --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- 820 "17" --- 820 "17" Engelse literatuur--18e eeuw. Periode 1700-1799 --- Engelse literatuur--18e eeuw. Periode 1700-1799 --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1800-1899

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What then is to be done? said Rasselas; the more we inquire, the less we can resolve.'Rasselas and his companions escape the pleasures of the 'happy valley' in order to make their 'choice of life'. By witnessing the misfortunes and miseries of others they may come to understand the nature of happiness, and value it more highly. Their travels and enquiries raise important practical and philosophical questions concerning many aspects of the human condition, including the business of a poet, the stability of reason, the immortality of the soul, and how to find contentment. Johnson's adaptation of

Happiness

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