Anger, guilt, and the psychology of the self in Clarissa
by Victor J. Lams
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"Samuel Richardson's highly acclaimed Clarissa, commonly read as a courtship novel, is in fact a story about the transaction between Robert Lovelace, a pathological narcissist, and Clarissa Harlowe, his victim, whom he idealizes, yet is compelled to destroy. Anger, Guilt, and the Psychology of the Self in Clarissa shows the narcissistic self-structure that explains Lovelace's anger and need for revenge.
It shows, too, the process by which, after being raped, Clarissa reconstructs her self through penitential mourning and deepens her Christian understanding by abandoning her de facto Pelagianism when her own experience of evil provides empirical evidence for Original Sin."--BOOK JACKET.
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Anger in literature, History and criticism, Epistolary fiction, English, Psychology in literature, English Epistolary fiction, Psychological fiction, English, Guilt in literature, Rape victims in literature, Self in literature, English Psychological fiction, Young women in literature, Richardson, samuel, 1689-1761, Psychological fiction, history and criticism, English fiction, history and criticism, 18th century, Epistolary fiction, history and criticism| Edition | Availability |
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Anger, guilt, and the psychology of the self in Clarissa
1999, P. Lang, Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter
in English
0820441600 9780820441603
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-205) and index.
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