One Great Family: Domestic Relationships in Samuel Richardson's Novels

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Simone Höhn. One Great Family: Domestic Relationships in Samuel Richardson's Novels

Contents

Acknowledgements

Conventions

Introduction

1. The system of duty

1.1 Allestree, Delany and reciprocal duties

1.2 Clarissa and the system of duty

1.3 Duty and interiority

1.4 Masquerade, truth and hypocrisy

1.5 Body and mind

2. Alternative structures of relationship: gift, contract, friendship

2.1 The giving of gifts

2.2 Women, gifts, and property

2.3 “Puzzling Locke”, Mulso and the system of duty

2.4 Friendship and the system of duty

2.5 Male authority and the disruption of relationships

3. Grandison and utopia

3.1 The harmonious body

3.2 Cross-gender solidarity

3.3 Grandisonian re-presentations of truth

3.4 Gift-giving in Grandison

3.5 Women among themselves

3.6 Women, free will and control

3.7 Paradise Regained – the utopia of Grandison Hall

4. Conclusion: the double narrative of Sir Charles Grandison

Bibliography. Primary sources

Secondary sources

Index of proper names

Allestree, Richard

Anderson, Penelope

Armstrong, Nancy

Ashcraft, Richard

Astell, Mary

Aubin, Penelope

Austen, Jane

Beasley, Jerry C

Behn, Aphra

Bellamy, Liz

Blackstone, William, Sir

Bradshaigh, Lady, correspondent of Richardson

Bray, Joe

Bronfen, Elisabeth

Bueler, Lois

Burney, Frances

Butler, Janet

Carroll, John

Carter, Elizabeth, correspondent of Richardson

Castle, Terry

Chaber, Lois A

Chapone, Hester see also Mulso, Hester

Chapone, Sarah, correspondent of Richardson

Cibber, Colley, correspondent of Richardson, see also Vanbrugh

Cleland, John

Clery, E.J

Collier, Jane, correspondent of Richardson

Cook, Elizabeth Heckendorn

Davies, Rebecca S

Delany, Patrick, correspondent of Richardson

Denny, Apryl

Derrida, Jacques

Dickie, Simon

Doody, Margaret Anne

Douglas, Mary

Duncombe, John, correspondent of Richardson

Dussinger, John A

Eagleton, Terry

Eaves, T.C. Duncan and Ben D. Kimpel

Echlin, Lady, correspondent of Richardson

Edgeworth, Maria

Edwards, Thomas, correspondent of Richardson

Erickson, Amy Louise

Erickson, Robert A

Fielding, Henry

Fielding, Sarah, correspondent of Richardson

Flynn, Carol Houlihan

Gaskell, Elizabeth

Gilbert, Sandra M. and Susan Gubar

Golden, Morris

Gordon, Scott Paul

Gouldner, Alvin W

Graham, David, correspondent of Richardson

Graham, Kenneth

Grainger, Frances, correspondent of Richardson

Gregory, John

Gwilliam, Tassie

Hagstrum, Jean H

Haney-Peritz, Janice

Haywood, Eliza

Hazlitt, William

Highmore, Susanna, correspondent of Richardson

Hinnant, Charles Haskell

How, James

Irigaray, Luce

Johns, Alessa

Johnson, Samuel, correspondent of Richardson

Jones, Wendy S

Kauffman, Linda S

Kay, Carol

Keymer, Tom

Kirkpatrick, Kathryn J

Kukorelly Leverington, Elizabeth

Lafayette, Madame de

Laqueur, Thomas

La Roche, Sophie von

Latimer, Bonnie

Lee, Wendy Anne

Lennox, Charlotte, correspondent of Richardson

Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim

Levine, Caroline

Lévi-Strauss, Claude

Locke, John

London, April

Lowe, Solomon, correspondent of Richardson

Mandeville, Bernard

Mangano, Bryan

Manley, Delarivier

Mauss, Marcel

McKeon, Michael

McMaster, Juliet

Miles, Robert

Milton, John

Moltchanova, Anna and Susannah Ottaway

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Mullan, John

Mulso, Hester, correspondent of Richardson

Newman, Karen

Norris, John

Pateman, Carol

Pohl, Nicole

Price, Leah

Radcliffe, Ann

Reeves, James Bryant

Richardson, Samuel

Familiar Letters on Important Occasions

To the Rambler (essay)

Rivero, Albert J

Rizzo, Betty

Robinson, David

Rosen, David and Aaron Santesso

Rosenthal, Debra J

Rubin, Gayle

Schiller, Friedrich

Scott, Sarah

Scott, Sir Walter

Shakespeare, William

Shepherd, Lynn

Simmons, John A

Skelton, Philip, correspondent of Richardson

Smith, Adam

Smith, J.A

Smollett, Tobias

Spacks, Patricia Meyer

Stamos, David N

Staves, Susan

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Stuber, Florian

Suarez, Michael F

Sussman, Charlotte

Talbot, Catherine, correspondent of Richardson

Tannen, Deborah

Taylor, E. Derek

Todd, Janet

Vanbrugh, Sir John and Colley Cibber

Van Ghent, Dorothy

Varey, Simon

Walker, Alice

Warner, William Beatty

Watt, Ian

Watzlawick, Paul

Westcomb, Sophia, correspondent of Richardson

Wieland, Christoph Martin

Wilt, Judith

Wycherley, William

Yates, Mary V

Yeazell, Ruth Bernard

Young, Edward, correspondent of Richardson

Zias, Heather

Zionkowski, Linda

Zionkowski, Linda and Cynthia Klekar

Zomchick, John P

Zwinger, Lynda

Footnotes. Introduction

1. The system of duty

1.1 Allestree, Delany and reciprocal duties

1.2 Clarissa and the system of duty

1.3 Duty and interiority

1.4 Masquerade, truth and hypocrisy

1.5 Body and mind

2. Alternative structures of relationship: gift, contract, friendship

2.1 The giving of gifts

2.2 Women, gifts, and property

2.3 “Puzzling Locke”, Mulso and the system of duty

2.4 Friendship and the system of duty

2.5 Male authority and the disruption of relationships

3. Grandison and utopia

3.1 The harmonious body

3.2 Cross-gender solidarity

3.3 Grandisonian re-presentations of truth

3.4 Gift-giving in Grandison

3.5 Women among themselves

3.6 Women, free will and control

3.7 Paradise Regained – the utopia of Grandison Hall

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Simone Eva Höhn

One Great Family: Domestic Relationships in Samuel Richardson’s Novels

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To capture the complex operations of social and literary forms, I borrow the concept of affordance from design theory. Affordance is a term used to describe the potential uses or actions latent in materials and designs. […]

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