TY  - BOOK
AU  - Castle,Terry
TI  - Clarissa's Ciphers: Meaning and Disruption in Richardson's Clarissa 
SN  - 9781501706943
AV  - PR3664.C43 
U1  - 823.6 
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY : 
PB  - Cornell University Press, 
KW  - Epistolary fiction, English
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Women and literature
KW  - England
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Gender Studies
KW  - Literary Studies
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; 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 Reader --; 9. Epilogue: The Reader Lives --; Bibliographic Postscript --; Index; Open Access
N2  - 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, both metaphorically and literally. A victim of rape, she is first a victim of hermeneutic abuse. Drawing on feminist criticism and hermeneutic theory, Castle examines the question of authority in the novel. By tracing the patterns of abuse and exploitation that occur when meanings are arbitrarily and violently imposed, she explores the sexual politics of reading
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501706943?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501706943
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501706943/original
ER  -