Sex and Enlightenment: Women in Richardson and Diderot - Rilegato

Goldberg, Rita

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ISBN 10: 0521260698 ISBN 13: 9780521260695

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1984

Riassunto

Dr Goldberg argues that Samuel Richardson had expressed a powerful and hitherto unperceived sexual mythology in Clarissa, making it the popular masterpiece it quickly became. There had never before been a work of literature in which the rape of a woman became the moral indictment of an age. Clarissa was a book which changed minds. It is not surprising that Diderot, the French philosophe, drew on Richardson as the inspiration for his own novel, La Religieuse. Richardson's novels had achieved Diderot's declared aim as editor of the great Encyclopédie: to change the way people think. For both writers it had become clear that the boudoir had replaced the Puritan closet and the Catholic confessional as the location for tests of virtue. Dr Goldberg offers an original, comparative reading of the works of these French and English innovators. She leaves us in little doubt that our understanding of what it means to be a woman in our culture owes much to the turbulent world of Richardson and Diderot.

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Dr Goldberg argues that Samuel Richardson had expressed a powerful and hitherto unperceived sexual mythology in Clarissa, which also influenced Diderot's La Religieuse. Richardson's novels had achieved Diderot's declared aim as editor of the great Encyclopédie: to change the way people think.

Contenuti:

Preface; A note on the texts; Introduction; 1. Clarissa and the Puritan conduct books; 2. The moral struggle at Harlowe Place; 3. 'Clarissa lives: LET THIS EXPIATE!'; 4. Diderot's Éloge de Richardson and the problem of realism; 5. Sex and the philosophe; 6. La Religieuse and Clarissa: convent and bordello; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0521260698
• ISBN 13: 9780521260695
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 248