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100 1 $aKoehler, Martha J.,$d1964-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2004149412
245 10 $aModels of reading :$bparagons and parasites in Richardson, Burney, and Laclos /$cMartha J. Koehler.
260 $aLewisburg :$bBucknell University Press,$c[2005], ©2005.
300 $a328 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 311-322) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tRichardson and the paragon's text --$g2.$tRichardsonian models --$g3.$t"Faultless monsters" and monstrous egos : the disruption of model selves in Evelina --$g4.$tDangerous mediations : Les Liaisons dangereuses and oppositionality.
520 1 $a"Two predominant critical assumptions about Samuel Richardson - that he is a feminist and that his novels aim to exert a straightforward didactic influence on readers - are challenged by this comparative study of female exemplarity in Clarissa and several novels written in its wake, by Richardson, Frances Burney, and Choderlos de Lacios." "Martha J. Koehler undertakes detailed readings of Clarissa, Sir Charles Grandison, Evelina, and Les Liaisons dangereuses in a theoretically and historically informed context, in order to investigate the ideologically charged terrain of models and modeling in eighteenth-century epistolary fiction. Deploying the concept of the "model" both as a person to be imitated (a paragon) and as a representation of narrative communication, she argues that Clarissa imposes on its readers a traditional view of women's inferiority, and frustrates the traditional ethical paradigm of imitating a model, in its depiction of a female paragon who is both a representative of and an exception to her gender." "Models of Reading will be of interest to Richardson, Burney, and Laclos scholars, as well as specialists in the history of the novel, the culture of sensibility, epistolary fiction, gender, and theories of reading. Koehler's arguments incorporate much recent criticism of eighteenth-century fiction, making this study a useful compendium even beyond the value of its own findings."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aEpistolary fiction, English$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103104
650 0 $aEnglish fiction$y18th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103099
650 0 $aEpistolary fiction, French$xHistory and criticism.
600 10 $aLaclos, Choderlos de,$d1741-1803$xCharacters.
600 10 $aRichardson, Samuel,$d1689-1761$xCharacters.
650 0 $aCharacters and characteristics in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85022624
600 10 $aBurney, Fanny,$d1752-1840$xCharacters.
650 0 $aDidactic fiction$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aConduct of life in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94003658
852 00 $bglx$hPR858.E65$iK64 2005
852 00 $bbar$hPR858.E65$iK64 2005