Clarissa's Ciphers: Meaning and Disruption in Richardson's Clarissa by Terry Castle

Clarissa's Ciphers: Meaning and Disruption in Richardson's Clarissa

Terry Castle

204 pages first pub 1982 (editions)

reflective slow-paced
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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, Cl...

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