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Styles of Meaning and Meanings of Style in Richardson's Clarissa
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English
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1999
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Using socially and culturally engaged discourse stylistics, Fulton explores ideologies of social formation, gender, and sexuality in the novel. The first part of the study, "Styles of Meaning," discusses Richardson's use of the genres of sententiousness (moral sentiments and proverbs) to engage questions of ideology. Fulton shows how Richardson draws on the socially significant difference between proverbs and maxims to develop contrasting styles in which his characters establish and defend personal identities in relation to family and friends. The second part, "Meanings of Style," explores ways in which meanings created through linguistic choices in the critical domains of gender and sexuality both sustain and sometimes betray characters struggling either to control or to resist being controlled by others. A contribution to both critical discussion of eighteenth-century fiction and to discourse stylistics committed to relating literary texts to their social and cultural contexts, this study introduces a mode of literary stylistic analysis with exciting possibilities for cultural studies.
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"Styles of Meaning and Meanings of Style in Richardson's Clarissa is enormously informed and provides a great deal of information on style as approached and analysed in the eighteenth century as well as in our own. It offers a model for further studies of style that are not just rarefied "ivory tower" considerations of syntax and vocabulary but engage the culture that produces the varying styles deployed. This book extends our knowledge of Richardson, his characters, and the language through which the characters are constructed." Juliet McMaster, Department of English, University of Alberta.
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Front Matter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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A Note on the Text
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Introduction: A Stylistic Approach to Clarissa
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Proverbs and the Language of Control
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The Moral Sentiment as a Dialogic Style of Meaning
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Surprised by Style: Lovelace, Clarissa, and Language for Love
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Why Look at Clarissa? Physical Description and Richardson’s Revision of Libertine Style
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Sentimental Libertinism: Richardson’s Reform of Libertine Desire
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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