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Article: Richardson's Clarissa and the Eighteenth-Century Reader.
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- Studies in the Novel
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- December 22, 1993
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KEYMER, TOM. Richardson's Clarissa and the Eighteenth-Century Reader. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. xxiii + 270 pp. $59.95.
Tom Keymer's book is timely for its concern with readers and with Richardson's intentions. Indeed, one of the reasons for the remarkable increase in the last two decades in interest in Clarissa is the recognition that here, in the age of the constructed person, reader-response criticism, and the death of the author, we have an indisputable example of a text for which we can reconstruct an author's responses to his readers and analyze his revisions in light of them. As Keymer says, we can see the way Richardson attempts to ...