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Clarissa Harlowe -Or- The History of a Young Lady -Vol. 1-: The First Volume of Richardson's Classic Epistolary Novel of Virtue, Family, and Power
Hardcover
RomanceClassic FictionGeneral Fiction
ISBN13: 9781515423058
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 286
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Clarissa Harlowe; or, The History of a Young Lady is Samuel Richardson's monumental epistolary novel of family coercion, moral pressure, seduction, resistance, and tragic virtue. In this first volume, Clarissa Harlowe stands at the centre of a struggle between personal conscience and family ambition, as her relatives attempt to force her into a marriage that would serve their interests rather than her happiness. Told through letters, the novel turns private correspondence into psychological drama, allowing motive, fear, pride, manipulation, and emotional strain to unfold with extraordinary intimacy.
First published in 1747-1748, Clarissa is one of the longest and most important novels in English literary history, and Britannica describes it as an epistolary novel of more than a million words, notable for its tremendous psychological insight. Its scale is part of its force: Richardson follows Clarissa's ordeal not as a simple plot of innocence endangered, but as a sustained examination of family power, sexual threat, social reputation, religious duty, and the limits placed on women's freedom in eighteenth-century England. For readers of classic fiction, early English novels, epistolary fiction, women's literary history, moral psychology, and eighteenth-century literature, Clarissa Harlowe remains a demanding but essential work.
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