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oapen-20.500.12657-621322024-03-27T14:14:46Z Clarissa's Ciphers Castle, Terry Literature: history and criticism Gender studies, gender groups thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general As Samuel Richardson's 'exemplar to her sex,’ Clarissa in the eponymous novel published in 1748 is the paradigmatic female victim. In Clarissa’s Ciphers, Terry Castle delineates the ways in which, in a world where only voice carries authority, Clarissa is repeatedly silenced, both metaphorically and literally. A victim of rape, she is first a victim of hermeneutic abuse. Drawing on feminist criticism and hermeneutic theory, Castle examines the question of authority in the novel. By tracing the patterns of abuse and exploitation that occur when meanings are arbitrarily and violently imposed, she explores the sexual politics of reading. 2023-03-29T15:51:02Z 2023-03-29T15:51:02Z 2016 book ONIX_20230329_9781501706943_117 9781501706943 9781501706936 9780801414954 9781501707148 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/62132 eng application/pdf application/epub+zip Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781501706943.pdf 9781501706936.epub Cornell University Press Cornell University Press 10.7298/en87-2f29 10.7298/en87-2f29 06a447d4-1d09-460f-8b1d-3b4b09d64407 0314e571-4102-4526-b014-3ed8f2d6750a 9781501706943 9781501706936 9780801414954 9781501707148 Cornell University Press 204 Ithaca [...] Open Book Program National Endowment for the Humanities NEH open access
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As Samuel Richardson's 'exemplar to her sex,’ Clarissa in the eponymous novel published in 1748 is the paradigmatic female victim. In Clarissa’s Ciphers, Terry Castle delineates the ways in which, in a world where only voice carries authority, Clarissa is repeatedly silenced, both metaphorically and literally. A victim of rape, she is first a victim of hermeneutic abuse. Drawing on feminist criticism and hermeneutic theory, Castle examines the question of authority in the novel. By tracing the patterns of abuse and exploitation that occur when meanings are arbitrarily and violently imposed, she explores the sexual politics of reading.
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