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Please improve the article or discuss proposed changes on the talk page. See Wikipedia's guide to writing better articles for suggestions. Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady is the title of an epistolary novel published by Samuel Richardson in 1748. Another form of the title is Clarissa Harlowe; or the History of a Young Lady. Image File history File links Clarissa_cover. ...
Samuel Richardson (August 19, 1689 – July 4, 1761) was a major 18th century writer best known for his three epistolary novels: Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded (1740), Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady (1748) and Sir Charles Grandison (1753). ...
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Titlepage of Aphra Behns Love-Letters (1684) An epistolary novel is written as a series of documents. ...
Samuel Richardson (August 19, 1689 – July 4, 1761) was a major 18th century writer best known for his three epistolary novels: Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded (1740), Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady (1748) and Sir Charles Grandison (1753). ...
See also: 1747 in literature, other events of 1748, 1749 in literature, list of years in literature. ...
Clarissa is an exceptionally long novel; excepting novel sequences, it may well be the longest novel in the English language. The full volume of its third edition, the edition most extensively revised by Richardson, spans over one million words. The first edition alone contains nearly 969,000 words. A novel sequence is a set or series of novels which share common themes, characters, or settings, but where each novel has its own title and free-standing storyline, and can thus be read independently or out of sequence. ...
The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. Clarissa Harlowe, the tragic heroine of Clarissa, is a beautiful and virtuous young lady whose family has become very wealthy only in recent years and is now eager to become part of the aristocracy by acquiring estates and titles through advantageous pairings. Clarissa is forced by relatives to marry a rich but heartless man against her will and, more importantly, against her own sense of virtue. Desperate to remain free, she allows a young gentleman of her acquaintance, Lovelace, to scare her into escaping with him. However, she refuses to marry him, longing — unusually for a girl in her time — to live by herself in peace. Lovelace, in the meantime, has been trying to arrange a fake marriage all along, and considers it a sport to add Clarissa to his long list of conquests. However, as he is more and more impressed by Clarissa, he finds it difficult to keep convincing himself that truly virtuous women do not exist. The continuous pressure he finds himself under, combined with his growing passion for Clarissa, forces him to extremes and eventually he rapes her. Clarissa manages to escape from him, but remains dangerously ill. When she dies, however, it is in the full consciousness of her own virtue, and trusting in a better life after death. Lovelace, tormented by what he has done but still unable to change, dies in a duel with Clarissa's cousin. Clarissa's relatives finally realise the misery they have caused, but discover that they are too late and Clarissa has already died. A tragic hero is an honorable protagonist with a tragic flaw, also known as fatal flaw, which eventually leads to his demise. ...
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See also Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded is an epistolary novel by Samuel Richardson, first published in 1740. ...
The History of Sir Charles Grandison (1753) is a novel by Samuel Richardson Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7) at Gutenberg Entry in the Literary Encyclopedia Categories: Literature stubs | English novels ...
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