Benjamin McEvoy | How to Read Clarissa by Samuel Richardson (10 Tips) @BenjaminMcEvoy | Uploaded June 2022 | Updated October 2024, 12 hours ago.
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0:00 why read Richardson’s Clarissa?
3:07 a note on the story’s mature themes
5:30 Clarissa’s characters’ inwardness
6:15 history of consciousness in literature
8:10 Clarissa and the epistolary form
9:00 the influence of Clarissa
9:50 how to connect with the first reader
10:40 Clarissa as bingeable soap opera
11:30 the story of Clarissa
13:10 being a reader in the 18th Century
14:10 escapism and the novel
17:40 the rise of the solitary reader
19:30 the power of the circulating library
20:30 the rise of the reading public
23:00 reading Richardson for the sentiment
24:00 the value of vicarious experience
25:50 the epistolary form
28:40 a writing assignment for you
31:20 Richardson vs Fielding & Defoe
33:40 the moral utility of fiction
36:15 rakes and libertines in literature
38:40 meeting Robert Lovelace
39:30 Milton & Shakespeare allusions
40:10 the patriarchal worldview
42:00 duty of daughter to father
44:40 recommend reading pace
46:00 recommended edition of Clarissa
50:00 deep-reading Clarissa together
52:17 well wishes and questions for you