Richardson Criticism online.  This list is intended to show the range of concerns in Richardson criticism over the past 40 years or so.  (Most of the links are restricted to registered users of databases licensed to Queen’s.  For information on setting up a proxy server through Queen’s, see: http://library.queensu.ca/libguides/webproxy_connect.htm.)

 

 

 

Armstrong, Nancy and Leonard Tennenhouse. “The American Origins of the English Novel.” American Literary History, Vol. 4, No. 3. (Autumn, 1992), pp. 386-410.  Stable URL:          http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0896-7148%28199223%294%3A3%3C386%3ATAOOTE%3E2.0.CO%3B2-6

Babb, Howard S. “Richardson's Narrative Mode in Clarissa.” Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 16, No. 3 (Summer, 1976), pp. 451-460.  Stable URL:          http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0039-3657%28197622%2916%3A3%3C451%3ARNMIC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-B

Ball, Donald L. "‘Pamela II:’ A Primary Link in Richardson's Development as a Novelist.”  Modern Philology, Vol. 65, No. 4. (May, 1968), pp. 334-342.  Stable URL:          http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0026-8232%28196805%2965%3A4%3C334%3A%22IAPLI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-D

Barchas, Janine. “The Engraved Score in Clarissa: An Intersection of Music, Narrative, and Graphic Design.”Eighteenth-Century Life - Volume 20, Number 2, May 1996, pp. 1-20. URL:  http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/eighteenth-century_life/v020/20.2barchas.html

Barker, Gerard A. “The Complacent Paragon: Exemplary Characterization in Richardson.” Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 9, No. 3 (Summer, 1969), pp. 503-519.  Stable URL:          http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0039-3657%28196922%299%3A3%3C503%3ATCPECI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Y

Beasley, Jerry C. “Romance and the ‘New’ Novels of Richardson, Fielding, and Smollett.” Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 16, No. 3 (Summer, 1976), pp. 437-450.  Stable URL:          http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0039-3657%28197622%2916%3A3%3C437%3ARAT%22NO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-O

Bond, Clinton. “Representing Reality: Strategies of Realism in the Early English Novel." Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 6:2 (January 1994): 121-140.  Stable URL:          http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/%7Eecf/Articles/Bond121-140.pdf

Bruckmann, Patricia Carr. "‘Men, Women and Poles’: Samuel Richardson and the Romance of a Stuart Princess.”  Eighteenth-Century Life - Volume 27, Number 3, Fall 2003, pp. 31-52.  URL:  http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/eighteenth-century_life/v027/27.3bruckmann.html

Bruckmann, Patricia Carr. “Clothes of Pamela's Own: Shopping at B- Hall.” Eighteenth-Century Life - Volume 25, Number 2, Spring 2001, pp. 201-213.  URL:  http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/eighteenth-century_life/v025/25.2bruckmann.html

Butler, Janet. “The Garden: Early Symbol of Clarissa's Complicity.” Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 24, No. 3 (Summer, 1984), pp. 527-544.  Stable URL:          http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0039-3657%28198422%2924%3A3%3C527%3ATGESOC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-A

Campbell, Jill. “Domestic Intelligence: Newspaper Advertising and the Eighteenth-Century Novel.” The Yale Journal of Criticism - Volume 15, Number 2, Fall 2002, pp. 251-291.  URL:  http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/yale_journal_of_criticism/v015/15.2campbell.html

Castle Terry J. “P/B: Pamela as Sexual Fiction.” Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 22, No. 3 (Summer, 1982), pp. 469-489.  Stable URL:          http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0039-3657%28198222%2922%3A3%3C469%3APPASF%3E2.0.CO%3B2-J

Chaber, Lois A. "'Sufficient to the Day': Anxiety in Sir Charles Grandison.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 1:4 (July 1989): 281-304.  Stable URL:        http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/%7Eecf/Articles/Chaber281-304.pdf

Conboy Sheila C. “Fabric and Fabrication in Richardson's Pamela.” ELH, Vol. 54, No. 1. (Spring, 1987), pp. 81-96.  Stable URL:          http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0013-8304%28198721%2954%3A1%3C81%3AFAFIRP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-E

Copeland, Edward. “Allegory and Analogy in Clarissa: The ‘Plan’ and the ‘No-Plan’.” ELH, Vol. 39, No. 2. (Jun., 1972), pp. 254-265.  Stable URL:          http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0013-8304%28197206%2939%3A2%3C254%3AAAAICT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-I

Dussinger, John A. “Conscience and the Pattern of Christian Perfection in Clarissa.” PMLA, Vol. 81, No. 3. (Jun., 1966), pp. 236-245.  Stable URL:          http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0030-8129%28196606%2981%3A3%3C236%3ACATPOC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Z

Dussinger, John A. “Love and Consanguinity in Richardson's Novels.” Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 24, No. 3 (Summer, 1984), pp. 513-526.  Stable URL:          http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0039-3657%28198422%2924%3A3%3C513%3ALACIRN%3E2.0.CO%3B2-2

Erickson, Robert A. "Written in the Heart: Clarissa and Scripture.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 2:1 (October 1989): 17-52.  Stable URL:        http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/%7Eecf/Articles/Erickson17-52.pdf

Erickson, Robert A. “Mother Jewkes, Pamela, and the Midwives.” ELH, Vol. 43, No. 4. (Winter, 1976), pp. 500-516.  Stable URL:          http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0013-8304%28197624%2943%3A4%3C500%3AMJPATM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-1

Fa,rrell William J. “The Style and the Action in Clarissa.” Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 3, No. 3 (Summer, 1963), pp. 365-375.  Stable URL:          http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0039-3657%28196322%293%3A3%3C365%3ATSATAI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Q

Ferguson, Frances. “Rape and the Rise of the Novel.” Representations, No. 20 (Autumn, 1987), pp. 88-112.  Stable URL:          http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0734-6018%28198723%290%3A20%3C88%3ARATROT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-L

Flint, Christopher. “The Anxiety of Affluence: Family and Class (Dis)order in Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded.” Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Summer, 1989), pp. 489-514.  Stable URL:          http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0039-3657%28198922%2929%3A3%3C489%3ATAOAFA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-B

Folkenflik, Robert. “A Room of Pamela's Own.” ELH, Vol. 39, No. 4. (Dec., 1972), pp. 585-596.  Stable URL:          http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0013-8304%28197212%2939%3A4%3C585%3AAROPO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-E

Fulton, Gordon D. “Why Look at Clarissa?” Eighteenth-Century Life - Volume 20, Number 2, May 1996, pp. 21-32.  URL:  http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/eighteenth-century_life/v020/20.2fulton.html

Golden, Morris. “Public Context and Imagining Self in Clarissa.” Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 25, No. 3 (Summer, 1985), pp. 575-598.  Stable URL:          http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0039-3657%28198522%2925%3A3%3C575%3APCAISI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-L

Golden, Morris. “Richardson's Repetitions.” PMLA, Vol. 82, No. 1. (Mar., 1967), pp. 64-67.  Stable URL:          http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0030-8129%28196703%2982%3A1%3C64%3ARR%3E2.0.CO%3B2-D

Gordon, Scott Paul. “Disinterested Selves: Clarissa and the Tactics of Sentiment.”ELH - Volume 64, Number 2, Summer 1997, pp. 473-502.  URL:  http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/elh/v064/64.2gordon.html

Green, Katherine Sobba. “The Heroine's Blazon and Hardwicke's Marriage Act: Commodification for a Novel Market.” Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Vol. 9, No. 2. (Autumn, 1990), pp. 273-290.  Stable URL:          http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0732-7730%28199023%299%3A2%3C273%3ATHBAHM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Q

Greenstein, Susan. “Dear Reader, Dear Friend: Richardson's Readers and the Social Response to Character.”  College English, Vol. 41, No. 5. (Jan., 1980), pp. 524-534.  Stable URL:          http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0010-0994%28198001%2941%3A5%3C524%3ADRDFRR%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Q

Gwilliam, Tassie. “Pamela and the Duplicitous Body of Femininity.” Representations, No. 34. (Spring, 1991), pp. 104-133.  Stable URL:          http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0734-6018%28199121%290%3A34%3C104%3APATDBO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Q

Hilliard, Raymond F. “Clarissa and Ritual Cannibalism.” PMLA, Vol. 105, No. 5. (Oct., 1990), pp. 1083-1097.  Stable URL:          http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0030-8129%28199010%29105%3A5%3C1083%3ACARC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Z

Hinton, Laura. “The Heroine's Subjection: Clarissa, Sadomasochism, and Natural Law.” Eighteenth-Century Studies - Volume 32, Number 3, Spring 1999, pp. 293-308.  URL:   http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/eighteenth-century_studies/v032/32.3hinton.html

Hynes, Peter. “Curses, Oaths, and Narrative in Richardson's Clarissa.” ELH, Vol. 56, No. 2. (Summer, 1989), pp. 311-326.  Stable URL:          http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0013-8304%28198922%2956%3A2%3C311%3ACOANIR%3E2.0.CO%3B2-W

Kaplan, Fred. "‘Our Short Story’: The Narrative Devices of Clarissa.” Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 11, No. 3(Summer, 1971), pp. 549-562.  Stable URL:          http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0039-3657%28197122%2911%3A3%3C549%3A%22SSTND%3E2.0.CO%3B2-U

Kibbie, Ann Louise. “Sentimental Properties: Pamela and Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure.” ELH, Vol. 58, No. 3. (Autumn, 1991), pp. 561-577.  Stable URL:          http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0013-8304%28199123%2958%3A3%3C561%3ASPPAMO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-5

Lamb, Jonathan. “The Fragmentation of Originals and Clarissa.” Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 28, No. 3 (Summer, 1988), pp. 443-459.  Stable URL:          http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0039-3657%28198822%2928%3A3%3C443%3ATFOOAC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-C

Macpherson, Sandra. “Lovelace, Ltd.” ELH - Volume 65, Number 1, Spring 1998, pp. 99-121.  URL:  http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/elh/v065/65.1macpherson.html

Martin, Catherine Gimelli. “On the Persistence of Quest-Romance in the Romantic Genre: The Strange Case of Pamela.” Poetics Today, Vol. 12, No. 1. (Spring, 1991), pp. 87-109.  Stable URL:          http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0333-5372%28199121%2912%3A1%3C87%3AOTPOQI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-G

McIntosh, Carey. “Pamela's Clothes.” ELH, Vol. 35, No. 1. (Mar., 1968), pp. 75-83.  Stable URL:          http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0013-8304%28196803%2935%3A1%3C75%3APC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-S

Mckee, Patricia. “Corresponding Freedoms: Language and the Self in Pamela.” ELH, Vol. 52, No. 3. (Autumn, 1985), pp. 621-648.  Stable URL:          http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0013-8304%28198523%2952%3A3%3C621%3ACFLATS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-5

McKillop, Alan D. “The Personal Relations between Fielding and Richardson.”  Modern Philology, Vol. 28, No. 4. (May, 1931), pp. 423-433.  Stable URL:          http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0026-8232%28193105%2928%3A4%3C423%3ATPRBFA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-G

Moore, Robert Etheridge, “Dr. Johnson on Fielding and Richardson.”  PMLA, Vol. 66, No. 2. (Mar., 1951), pp. 162-181.  Stable URL:          http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0030-8129%28195103%2966%3A2%3C162%3ADJOFAR%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Y

Moynihan, Robert D. “Clarissa and the Enlightened Woman as Literary Heroine.” Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 36, No. 1. (Jan.-Mar., 1975), pp. 159-166.  Stable URL:          http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-5037%28197501%2F03%2936%3A1%3C159%3ACATEWA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-R

Napier Elizabeth R. "‘Tremble and Reform’: The Inversion of Power in Richardson's Clarissa.” ELH, Vol. 42, No. 2. (Summer, 1975), pp. 214-223.  Stable URL:          http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0013-8304%28197522%2942%3A2%3C214%3A%22ARTIO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-5

Needham, Gwendolyn B. “Richardson's Characterization of Mr. B. and Double Purpose in Pamela.” Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 3, No. 4. (Summer, 1970), pp. 433-474.  Stable URL:          http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0013-2586%28197022%293%3A4%3C433%3ARCOMBA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-K

Osland, Dianne. “Complaisance and Complacence, and the Perils of Pleasing in Clarissa.” SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 - Volume 40, Number 3, Summer 2000, pp. 491-509.  URL:  http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/studies_in_english_literature/v040/40.3osland.html

Park, William. “Clarissa as Tragedy.” Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 16, No. 3 (Summer, 1976), pp. 461-471.  Stable URL:          http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0039-3657%28197622%2916%3A3%3C461%3ACAT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-R

Park, William. “Fielding and Richardson.” PMLA, Vol. 81, No. 5. (Oct., 1966), pp. 381-388.  Stable URL:          http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0030-8129%28196610%2981%3A5%3C381%3AFAR%3E2.0.CO%3B2-E

Peters, Dolores. “The Pregnant Pamela: Characterization and Popular Medical Attitudes in the Eighteenth Century.” Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 14, No. 4. (Summer, 1981), pp. 432-451.  Stable URL:          http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0013-2586%28198122%2914%3A4%3C432%3ATPPCAP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-P

Poovey, Mary. “Journeys from this World to the Next: The Providential Promise in Clarissa and Tom Jones.” ELH, Vol. 43, No. 3. (Autumn, 1976), pp. 300-315.  Stable URL:          http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0013-8304%28197623%2943%3A3%3C300%3AJFTWTT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-5

Raynie, Stephen A. “Hayman and Gravelot's Anti- Pamela Designs for Richardson's Octavo Edition of Pamela I and II.” Eighteenth-Century Life - Volume 23, Number 3, November 1999, pp. 77-93.  URL:  http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/eighteenth-century_life/v023/23.3raynie.html

Roussel, Roy. “Reflections on the Letter: The Reconciliation of Distance and Presence in Pamela.” ELH, Vol. 41, No. 3. (Autumn, 1974), pp. 375-399.  Stable URL:          http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0013-8304%28197423%2941%3A3%3C375%3AROTLTR%3E2.0.CO%3B2-S

Schellenberg, Betty A. “Using ‘Femalities’ to ‘Make Fine Men’: Richardson's Sir Charles Grandison and the Feminization of Narrative.” Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 34, No. 3 (Summer, 1994), pp. 599-616.  Stable URL:          http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0039-3657%28199422%2934%3A3%3C599%3AU%22T%22FM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-A

Shuttleton, David E.  "Pamela's Library": Samuel Richardson and Dr. Cheyne's "Universal Cure." Eighteenth-Century Life - Volume 23, Number 1, February 1999, pp. 59-79.  URL:  http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/eighteenth-century_life/v023/23.1shuttleton.html

Stephanson, Raymond. “Richard's ‘Nerves’: The Physiology of Sensibility in Clarissa,” Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 49, No. 2. (Apr.-Jun., 1988), pp. 267-285.  Stable URL:          http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-5037%28198804%2F06%2949%3A2%3C267%3AR%22TPOS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-D

Stevenson, John Allen and Raymond F. Hilliard. “Maternal Nursing and Oral Aggression in Richardson's England” PMLA, Vol. 106, No. 3. (May, 1991), pp. 536-538.  Stable URL:          http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0030-8129%28199105%29106%3A3%3C536%3AMNAOAI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-3

Stevenson, John Allen. "‘A Geometry of His Own’: Richardson and the Marriage-Ending.”  Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 26, No. 3 (Summer, 1986), pp. 469-483.  Stable URL:          http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0039-3657%28198622%2926%3A3%3C469%3A%22GOHOR%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Y

Stevenson, John Allen. “The Courtship of the Family: Clarissa and the Harlowes Once More.” ELH, Vol. 48, No. 4. (Winter, 1981), pp. 757-777.  Stable URL:          http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0013-8304%28198124%2948%3A4%3C757%3ATCOTFC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-P

Stuber, Florian. “On Fathers and Authority in Clarissa.” Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 25, No. 3 (Summer, 1985), pp. 557-574.  Stable URL:          http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0039-3657%28198522%2925%3A3%3C557%3AOFAAIC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-W

Tennenhouse, Leonard. “The Americanization of Clarissa.” The Yale Journal of Criticism - Volume 11, Number 1, Spring 1998, pp. 177-196.  URL:  http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/yale_journal_of_criticism/v011/11.1tennenhouse.html

Turner, James Grantham. “Novel Panic: Picture and Performance in the Reception of Richardson's Pamela.” Representations, No. 48. (Autumn, 1994), pp. 70-96.  Stable URL:          http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0734-6018%28199423%290%3A48%3C70%3ANPPAPI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-F

Warner, William B. “The Elevation of the Novel in England: Hegemony and Literary History.” ELH, Vol. 59, No. 3. (Autumn, 1992), pp. 577-596.  Stable URL:          http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0013-8304%28199223%2959%3A3%3C577%3ATEOTNI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-M

Warner, William Beatty. “Proposal and Habitation: The Temporality and Authority of Interpretation in and about a Scene of Richardson's Clarissa.” boundary 2, Vol. 7, No. 2 (Winter, 1979), pp. 169-200.  Stable URL:          http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0190-3659%28197924%297%3A2%3C169%3APAHTTA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-D

Wehrs, Donald R. “Irony, Storytelling, and the Conflict of Interpretations in Clarissa.” ELH, Vol. 53, No. 4. (Winter, 1986), pp. 759-777.  Stable URL:          http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0013-8304%28198624%2953%3A4%3C759%3AISATCO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-S

Wilt, Judith. “He Could Go No Farther: A Modest Proposal about Lovelace and Clarissa.” PMLA, Vol. 92, No. 1. (Jan., 1977), pp. 19-32.  Stable URL:          http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0030-8129%28197701%2992%3A1%3C19%3AHCGNFA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-K

Yates, Mary V. “The Christian Rake in Sir Charles Grandison.” Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 24, No. 3 (Summer, 1984), pp. 545-561.  Stable URL:          http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0039-3657%28198422%2924%3A3%3C545%3ATCRISC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-V

Zias, Heather. “Who Can Believe? Sentiment vs. Cynicism in Richardson's Clarissa.” Eighteenth-Century Life - Volume 27, Number 3, Fall 2003, pp. 99-123.  URL:  http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/eighteenth-century_life/v027/27.3zias.html

Zomchick, John P. “Tame Spirits, Brave Fellows, and the Web of Law: Robert Lovelace's Legalistic Conscience.” ELH, Vol. 53, No. 1. (Spring, 1986), pp. 99-120.  Stable URL:          http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0013-8304%28198621%2953%3A1%3C99%3ATSBFAT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-V