Samuel Richardson

Fifteen contributors commemorate the three-hundredth anniversary of Samuel Richardson's birth with essays investigating various aspects of the novelist's work.

List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Contributors; Introduction; Note on texts; Secondary works frequently cited; 1. Teaching Pamela Florian Stuber; 2. Pamela: rethinking arcadia Gillian Beer; 3. Truth and storytelling in Clarissa John Dussinger; 4. Remapping London: Clarissa and the woman in the window Edward Copeland; 5. Lovelace and the paradoxes of libertinism James Grantham Turner; 6. Richardson's Meditations: Clarissa's Clarissa Tom Keymer; 7. Identity and character in Sir Charles Grandison Margaret Anne Doody; 8. The pains of compliance in Sir Charles Grandison Carol Houlihan Flynn; 9. Richardson's 'Speaking Pictures' Janet E. Aikens; 10. Unravelling the 'Cord which ties good men to good men': male friendship in Richardson's novels David Robinson; 11. Richardson: original or learned genius? Jocelyn Harris; 12. 'A Young, a Richardson, or a Johnson': lines of cultural force in the age of Richardson Pat Rogers; 13. 'A novel in a series of letters by a lady': Richardson and some Richardsonian novels Isobel Grundy; 14. Publishing Richardson's correspondence: the 'necessary office of selection' Peter Sabor; 15. The rise of Richardson criticism Siobhan Kilfeather; Index.