Revisiting Richardson

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REBECCA ANNE BARR is an associate professor in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge in the UK. She has published widely on gender, sexual violence, and the novel, and is coeditor of Bellies, Bowels, and Entrails in the Eighteenth Century and Ireland and Masculinities in History. BONNIE LATIMER is a professor of Restoration and eighteenth-century literature at the University of Southampton in the UK, where she is also the associate dean for education in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. She has published on Richardson and various other eighteenth-century topics.

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This collection reconsiders the works of the eighteenth-century novelist Samuel Richardson. These lively essays examine overlooked works, provide new readings of Pamela and Clarissa, and show how Richardson's preoccupations--gender and sexuality; race and white femininity; masculinity, sadism, and control; religion and selfhood; authorship and artistic form--resonate with contemporary readers.