Acknowledgements
Introduction
Samuel Richardson: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
Clarissa
Appendix A: Prefatory Material for the Second Edition, 1749
Appendix B: Richardson’s Correspondence
Appendix C: Eighteenth-Century Responses to Clarissa
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Toni Bowers is Professor of English at the
University of Pennsylvania.
John Richetti is A.M. Rosenthal Professor
(Emeritus) of English at the University of Pennsylvania. Both have
published widely on eighteenth-century fiction.
Clarissa is one of the towering masterpieces of the eighteenth
century, and it is impossible to understand the literature of the
period and the rise of the novel without it. This new edition
provides a rigorously conceived, expertly executed solution to the
problem of abridgment, and restores to the undergraduate classroom
a work previously excluded by sheer length." - Thomas Keymer,
University of Toronto
"Eager to introduce rather than replace a masterpiece, Richetti and
Bowers offer a practical classroom compromise to the familiar
problem of Richardson's prolixity. Surely an abridgment of this
magnitude—with its smart choice of the 1751 third edition as copy
text, its accessible introduction and notes, and an appendix that
resurrects important historical contexts—will tempt new generations
of readers to consider, eventually, all of Clarissa." - Janine
Barchas, University of Texas at Austin
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