Revisiting Richardson (Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1684485665 ISBN 13: 9781684485666

Publisher: Bucknell University Press, 2025

Synopsis

The preoccupations of eighteenth-century novelist Samuel Richardson—the inequities of gender and sexuality; race and white femininity; masculinity, sadism, and control; religion and selfhood; authorship and artistic form—continue to resonate with contemporary readers. This fresh collection reconsiders his oeuvre, expanding and significantly updating critical debate on its meaning and importance. In these lively and engaging essays, contributors examine historically overlooked works, provide new readings of his best-known novels Pamela and Clarissa, and stake a serious claim for the importance of his final novel, Sir Charles Grandison. Diverse, inventive, and provocative, these essays demonstrate the complexity, relevance, and surprising legacies of Richardson’s novels and characters—finding traces in post-conceptual poetry, detective fiction, and in the fantasies of historical romance. Revisiting Richardson reflects on a decade of scholarship while delivering innovative perspectives on an author whose work continues to be indispensable for understanding the history of the novel. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed by Rutgers University Press.

About this title

About the Author

REBECCA ANNE BARR is an associate professor in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge in the UK. She has published widely on gender, sexual violence, and the novel, and is coeditor of Bellies, Bowels, and Entrails in the Eighteenth Century and Ireland and Masculinities in History.

BONNIE LATIMER is a professor of Restoration and eighteenth-century literature at the University of Southampton in the UK, where she is also the associate dean for education in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. She has published on Richardson and various other eighteenth-century topics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1684485665
• ISBN 13: 9781684485666
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 190
• Editor: Barr Rebecca Anne, Latimer Bonnie