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ERIC Number: EJ374784
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1988
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On Character in the Novel: William Beatty Warner versus Samuel Richardson and the Humanists.
Kraft, Quentin G.
College English, v50 n1 p32-47 Jan 1988
Discusses William Beatty Warner's "Reading Clarissa: The Struggles of Interpretation," a study of Samuel Richardson's role as eighteenth-century critic and interpreter of his own novels. Examines the treatment of character by both Richardson and Warner, focusing on Richardson's humanist interpretation and Warner's anti-humanist stance.(MM)
Descriptors: Characterization, Eighteenth Century Literature, English Literature, Literary Criticism, Literary History, Novels, Reader Response, Reader Text Relationship
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Book/Product Reviews
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Author Text Relationship; Classics (Literature); Critical Theory; Critics; Deconstruction (Literature); Humanists; Literary Theory; Narrative Text; Richardson (Samuel); Text Factors; Warner (William Beatty)