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\nEdited by  \nDAVID BLE WETT  \n# PASSION AND VIRTUE:\n\nESSAYS ON THE NOVELS OFSAMUEL RICHARDSON  \nThis page inentionally left blank  \nPortrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds(1723-92)of his niece,Miss Theophila Palmer,reading Clarissa by Samuel Richardson.Reproduced by kind permission of theTrustees of the Fourth Lord Hillington's 1962 Heirlooms Settlement.  \nThis page inentionally left blank  \n# Passion and VirtueEssays on the Novels of Samuel Richardson\n\nEdited byDAVID BLEWETT  \nwww.utppublishing.com  \n◎ University of Toronto Press Incorporated 2001Toronto Buffalo LondonPrinted in Canada  \nISBN0-8020-3503-5  \nPrinted on acid-free paper  \n## National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication Data\n\nMain entry under title:  \n## Passion and virtue:essays on the novels of Samuel Richardson\n\nIncludes index.  \nISBN 0-8020-3503-5  \n1.Richardson,Samuel,1689-1761-Criticism and interpretation.2.Virtuein literature,I.Blewett,David,1940-PR3667.P372001   823.6C2001-930196-0  \nUniversity of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial assistance to itspublishing program of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario ArtsCouncil.  \nUniversity of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial support for its pub-lishing activities of the Government of Canada through the Book PublishingIndustry Development Program(BPIDP).  \nContents  \nContributors  \n1xi  \nAcknowledgments  \nA Note on Texts  \nIntroduction  \nDAVID BLEWETT3  \nPamela  \nPamela's Textual AuthorityJOHN B.PIERCE8  \n“Ciceronian Eloquence”:The Politics of Virtue in  \nRichardson's PamelaJOHNA.DUSSINGER27  \nThe Place of Sally Godfrey in Richardson's Pamela  \nALBERTJ.RIVERO52  \nEnclosing the Immovable:Structuring Social Authority inPamela 2BETTYA.SCHELLENBERG73  \nClarissa  \nProtean Lovelace  \nJOCELYN HARRIS92  \nClarissa's Treasonable Correspondence:Gender,Epistolary Politics,and the Public Sphere  \nRACHELK.CARNELL114  \nIs Clarissa Bourgeois Art?DANIELP.GUNN135  \n“Written in the Heart”:Clarissa and Scripture  \nROBERT A.ERICKSON170  \nThe Gnostic ClarissaMARGARET ANNE DOODY  \n210  \nSir Charles Grandison  \nSir Charles Grandison:Richardson on Body and CharacterJULIET MCMASTER246  \n“Sufficient to the Day”:Anxiety in Sir Charles GrandisonLOIS A.CHABER268  \nThe Dialectic of Love in Sir Charles Grandisom  \nWENDYJONES295  \nSir Charles Grandison and the “Language of Nature”GEORGEE.HAGGERTY317  \nIndex  \n333  \n# Contributors\n\nRAC:HEL K CARNELL,Assistant Professor of English at Cleveland State Uni-versity,has published articles in Eighteerth-Century Studies,Nineteench-CenturyLiterature,and Studies in the Novel.She is completing a book on the con-nections between eighteenth-century political debate and the rise of thenovel.  \nLois A.CHABER teaches at the American Intercontinental University in Lon-don and has published several essays on the eighteenth-century novel,par-ticularly Defoe and Richardson.She is working on a book dealing with anaspect of family history.  \nMARCARET ANNE DooDY is John and Barbara Glynn Family Professor of Lit-erature,University of Notre Dame.Her most recent full-length book is TheTrue Story of the Nouel(1996).She is writing a book on Apuleius.  \nJOHNA.DUSSINGER,Professor of English at the University of Illinois(Urbana-Champaign),is the author of The Discourse of the Mind in Eighteenth-CenturyFiction(1974),In the Pride of the Moment:Encounters in Jane Austen's World(1990).He is at work with other Richardson scholars on a projected schol-arly cdition of the printer-novelist's correspondencc.  \nRoBERT A.ERiCKSON is Professor of English at the University of California,Santa Barbara.He is the author of The Language of the Heart,1600-1750(1997)and Mother Midnight:Birth,Sex,and Fate in Eighteenth-Century Fic-tion(1986).He was Fulbright Professor in Comparative Religion at theUniversity of Helsinki,1999-2000,teaching and writing on Milton,epic,shamanism,and the Finnish national epic,the Kalevala.  \nDANIELP.GUNN is 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