A sheer impossibility of the epistolary novel, silence is nevertheless thematized in Richardson’s Clarissa (1748). Clarissa’s silences are multifarious, affecting both internal and external communication, both the represented conversations and the correspondence itself. This paper presents a typology of the various silences at work in Samuel Richardson’s second novel. It underlines the importance of what proves to be a genuine speech act in the making of the characters and strives to highlight the specificity of the silences of fiction. The thematics of silence calls for a reflection on the role and place of woman both in the society represented in Clarissa and in Familiar Letters (1741)
Studies have tended to focus on implied, not indicated, silences and/or to define silence as the opp...
Insistent, diffuse, rumor plays an essential part in Clarissa. Running parallel to the cluster of le...
Most Richardson scholarship mentions that Clarissa shares affinities with drama; however, with the e...
Impossibilité du roman épistolaire, le silence est pourtant thématisé dans la Clarissa (1748) de Sam...
Le problème de la communication, et pas seulement du danger des liaisons, est au cœur du roman épist...
As Samuel Richardson's 'exemplar to her sex,’ Clarissa in the eponymous novel published in 1748 is t...
When Richardson described Clarissa as a ‘Dramatic Narrative’, he established one of the central crit...
In the mid-eighteenth century, women writers participated in dynamic and innovative criticism about ...
ii For Samuel Richardson, language is the means by which he tells the story of Clarissa but, more im...
As Samuel Richardson's 'exemplar to her sex,’ Clarissa in the eponymous novel published in 1748 is t...
Silence plays an integral role in our lives. It is present in everyday conversations, as both the st...
This dissertation interrogates the political force of silence in the fictional and philosophical wri...
My dissertation argues that silence provides a lens through which we can trace the development of th...
Reading Françoise de Graffigny's 1747 novel Lettres d'une Péruvienne as an atypical travel narrative...
The early translations of Samuel Richardson's Clarissa (1748) into German (by the Gottingen professo...
Studies have tended to focus on implied, not indicated, silences and/or to define silence as the opp...
Insistent, diffuse, rumor plays an essential part in Clarissa. Running parallel to the cluster of le...
Most Richardson scholarship mentions that Clarissa shares affinities with drama; however, with the e...
Impossibilité du roman épistolaire, le silence est pourtant thématisé dans la Clarissa (1748) de Sam...
Le problème de la communication, et pas seulement du danger des liaisons, est au cœur du roman épist...
As Samuel Richardson's 'exemplar to her sex,’ Clarissa in the eponymous novel published in 1748 is t...
When Richardson described Clarissa as a ‘Dramatic Narrative’, he established one of the central crit...
In the mid-eighteenth century, women writers participated in dynamic and innovative criticism about ...
ii For Samuel Richardson, language is the means by which he tells the story of Clarissa but, more im...
As Samuel Richardson's 'exemplar to her sex,’ Clarissa in the eponymous novel published in 1748 is t...
Silence plays an integral role in our lives. It is present in everyday conversations, as both the st...
This dissertation interrogates the political force of silence in the fictional and philosophical wri...
My dissertation argues that silence provides a lens through which we can trace the development of th...
Reading Françoise de Graffigny's 1747 novel Lettres d'une Péruvienne as an atypical travel narrative...
The early translations of Samuel Richardson's Clarissa (1748) into German (by the Gottingen professo...
Studies have tended to focus on implied, not indicated, silences and/or to define silence as the opp...
Insistent, diffuse, rumor plays an essential part in Clarissa. Running parallel to the cluster of le...
Most Richardson scholarship mentions that Clarissa shares affinities with drama; however, with the e...