TY - BOOK AU - Latimer,Bonnie TI - Making Gender, Culture, and the Self in the Fiction of Samuel Richardson: the Novel Individual T2 - British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century SN - 9781409446330 AV - PR3667 U1 - 823.6 PY - 2013/// CY - Farnham PB - Ashgate Pub. KW - Richardson, Samuel, KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - European KW - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - bisacsh KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - fast N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Cover; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction Pigtails and Pope's Poetry; 1 The Modern Individual; 2 The Manhood of the Mind; 3 The Moral Economy; 4 The Practice of Piety; 5 The Intimate Contract; Afterword; Bibliography; Index N2 - Proposing that Samuel Richardson's novels were crucial for the construction of female individuality in the mid-eighteenth century, Latimer argues that Grandison must be recognised as Richardson's final word on his re-envisioning of the gendered self. She calls for a rigorous rereading of the novel as a basis for reassessing Richardson's fictional oeuvre that has implications for fresh thinking about the eighteenth-century novel UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=504320 ER -