"As Samuel Richardson's 'exemplar to her sex', Clarissa in the eponymous novel published in 1748 is the paradigmatic female victim. In Clarissa's Ciphers, Terry Castle delineates the ways in which, in a world where only voice carries authority, Clarissa is repeatedly silenced, b…
Introduction -- 1. Clarissa by halves -- 2. Discovering reading -- 3. Reading the letter, reading the world -- 4. Interrupting "Miss Clary"--5. Denatured signs -- 6. The voyage out -- 7. The death of the author: Clarissa's coffin -- 8. The death of the author: Richardson and the…
As Samuel Richardson's 'exemplar to her sex, ' Clarissa in the eponymous novel published in 1748 is the paradigmatic female victim. In Clarissa's Ciphers, Terry Castle delineates the ways in which, in a world where only voice carries authority, Clarissa is repeatedly silenced, b…
As Samuel Richardson's 'exemplar to her sex, ' Clarissa in the eponymous novel published in 1748 is the paradigmatic female victim. In Clarissa's Ciphers, Terry Castle delineates the ways in which, in a world where only voice carries authority, Clarissa is repeatedly silenced, b…
"As Samuel Richardson's 'exemplar to her sex', Clarissa in the eponymous novel published in 1748 is the paradigmatic female victim. In Clarissa's Ciphers, Terry Castle delineates the ways in which, in a world where only voice carries authority, Clarissa is repeatedly silenced, b…
Studie over het lesbische als spookgestalte in de westerse literatuur, geschiedenis en cultuur sinds 1750 a.d.h.v. het werk van Defoe en Diderot, Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, Henry James, Anne Lister, Syliva Townsend Warner en Janet Flanner en vrouwen als Greta Garbo en Marie A…
-- New York Times Book Review.
In a series of wide-ranging essays - on literary images of lesbianism from Defoe and Diderot to Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes, on the homosexual reputation of Marie Antoinette, on the lesbian writings of Anne Lister, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Janet Flanner, and on Henry Jame…