Fictions of Materiality in Clarissa.
The article focuses on proliferation of writing that is Samuel Richardson's book "Clarissa" which argues that material traces of rape's violence and the staggered lines that invariably accompany the most distinctive letters in "Clarissa." It mentions novel's fictions of materiality endow women's wri...
| Published in: | Eighteenth Century: Theory & Interpretation Vol. 62; no. 1; pp. 43 - 63 |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
Spring2021
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| Summary: | The article focuses on proliferation of writing that is Samuel Richardson's book "Clarissa" which argues that material traces of rape's violence and the staggered lines that invariably accompany the most distinctive letters in "Clarissa." It mentions novel's fictions of materiality endow women's writing with a nondiscursive, quasi-agential force that may convey and authenticate affect, circumvent male discursive control, or otherwise disrupt discursive violence in the aftermath of rape. |
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