Styles of Meaning and Meanings of Style in Richardson's Clarissa

Download or read book Styles of Meaning and Meanings of Style in Richardson's Clarissa written by Gordon D. Fulton and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1999 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gordon Fulton provides a fascinating new study of styles in Samuel Richardson's masterpiece, Clarissa, connecting the style the characters deploy in their speech and letters with their positions in society. Fulton argues that the novel is a critical examination of the relationship between language and power and an expression of Richardson's own understanding of social interaction as a struggle for personal pre-eminence and sexual dominance.