Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Contributors ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. A Note on Texts xiii
6. Introduction 3
7. Pamela
8. Pamela's Textual Authority 8
9. "Ciceronian Eloquence": The Politics of Virtue in Richardson's Pamela 27
10. The Place of Sally Godfrey in Richardson's Pamela 52
11. Enclosing the Immovable: Structuring Social Authority in Pamela 2 73
12. Clarissa
13. Protean Lovelace 92
14. Clarissa's Treasonable Correspondence: Gender, Epistolary Politics, and the Public Sphere 114
15. Is Clarissa Bourgeois Art? 135
16. Abuse and Atonement: The Passion of Clarissa Harlowe 152
17. "Written in the Heart": Clarissa and Scripture 170
18. The Gnostic Clarissa 210
19. Sir Charles Grandison
20. Sir Charles Grandison: Richardson on Body and Character 246
21. "Sufficient to the Day": Anxiety in Sir Charles Grandison 268
22. The Dialectic of Love in Sir Charles Grandison 295
23. Sir Charles Grandison and the "Language of Nature" 317
24. Index 333