Другой Ричардсон. Новые акценты в восприятии личности и творчества писателя в последние десятилетия ХХ в.
Journal Title: Вісник Університету імені Альфреда Нобеля. Серія "Філологічні науки" - Year 2017, Vol 2, Issue 14
Abstract
Since the publication of his novel “Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded” in 1740, Samuel Richardson’s place in the English literary tradition has been secured. Over the three centuries since embarking on his printing career the ‘divine’ novelist has been variously understood as moral crusader, advocate for women, pioneer of the realist novel and print innovator. Following the rise of theory in the 1980s, Richardson’s work as a whole has been at the center of debates about representation, reading, interpretation, subjectivity, gender, politics, print culture, and other key topics in the 18th-century literature and the novel genre. Richardson’s image as a sober middle-class printer is deceptive, for the life he gives to radical ideas about hierarchy, power, education and reform demonstrates a considerable awareness of the intellectual and political ferment which had existed since the Civil War. He is writing among other things as a champion of an aggressively emerging Protestant middle class; and this means that his writing is necessarily didactic. Samuel Richardson belongs to the age of the Philosophers, of the wits and men (and sometimes women) of letters who create or contribute to the new projects of mind – the dictionaries, encyclopedias, grammars, histories, that give order and definition to the pursuit of knowledge. For Richardson, the novel is to be acknowledged as an inquiry into life, and as a mode of knowing. So he is sometimes accused of writing novels that are too long. The love relationship is the focal point of Richardson’s imaginations. The state of being in love fascinates him. He sees it as war, a struggle not only between the male and female principle, but also between various aspects of the character of each individual. Richardson, as a devout puritan who believes in absolute moral values, is forever struggling to control his texts so as to ensure the correct reading of them.
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Н. В. Калиберда
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- DOI 10.32342/2523-4463-2017-0-14-12-16
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