🎭 #OTD in #Theatre #History 6 February 1760, #NiccolòPiccinni's #opera buffa "La buona figliuola" (The Good-Natured Girl) was first performed at the Teatro delle Dame, Rome, Italy.
The libretto by #CarloGoldoni was based on #SamuelRichardson 's novel "Pamela."
Coming soon.
#Pamela #SamuelRichardson #EpistolaryNovel #18thCenturyLiterature #VirtueRewarded #EarlyNovel #GeorgianLiterature #RichardsonClassic #SentimentalNovel #EnglishNovel
This was awful. It took a fmc who is afraid of the pressure from her master that she works for who wants to sleep with her to marrying him. It was truly a plain example of excuses our culture makes for powerful men, and has since the 1700s.
#Pamela #SamuelRichardson #BookReview
"Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it."
✒ #SamuelRichardson, English author and publisher, was #BOTD 19 August 1689. #Literature
Book cover for Revisiting Richardson which shows Pamela in flight from Mr B.
TOC for the book available here: Introduction Rebecca Anne Barr and Bonnie Latimer 1 Citizens of the Future: The Apprentice’s Vade Mecum in Context Bonnie Latimer 2 Queer Time in Pamela Declan Kavanagh 3 “Happy, happy, happy, thrice happy Pamela”?: Gendered Happiness and the Happiness Gap in Pamela and Pamela II Heather Ann Ladd 4 Conceptual Richardson Amelia Dale 5 Clarissa with Sade: Persecution and Plot after Richardson Samuel Rowe 6 Clarissa and White Supremacy: Race, Gender and Erasure Kerry Sinanan 7 Misogyny and the Male Virgin in Sir Charles Grandison Rebecca Anne Barr 8 Solving for Y: Fictive Kinship and Character in The History of Sir Charles Grandison Sarah Berkowitz 9 “One in a Hundred”: Extending the Influence of Richardson’s Sir Charles Grandison E. Derek Taylor Acknowledgments Bibliography About the Contributors Index
Finally, in physical copy thanks to @kent.ac.uk Templeman library efficiencies. Looking forward to pursuing and setting secondary readings for my teaching next year #SamuelRichardson @bucknellupress.bsky.social
"Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole."
✒️ #SamuelRichardson, English novelist, #DOTD 4 July 1761. #Literature
“The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.”
— Samuel Richardson
#Bluesky #SamuelRichardson #StrengthAndBurden #CarryTheWeight #LifeChallenges #EndureAndGrow #EmotionalResilience #InnerFortitude #BearMuch #HumanCondition #WisdomOfLife #SoulStrength #Grief #Pain
"Revisiting Richardson"
Edited by Rebecca Anne Barr and Bonnie Latimer
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/bucknell/rev...
Published by Bucknell University
#LiteraryStudies #18thCenturyStudies #18thCentury #SamuelRichardson #Gender #Sexuality #Race #Religion #BucknellUniversityPress
Revisiting Richardson Edited by Rebecca Anne Barr and Bonnie Latimer REVISITING RICHARDSON DESCRIPTION The preoccupations of eighteenth-century novelist Samuel Richardson —the inequities of gender and sexuality; race and white femininity; masculinity, sadism, and control; religion and selfhood; authorship and artistic form - continue to resonate with contemporary readers. This fresh collection reconsiders his oeuvre, expanding and significantly updating critical debate on its meaning and importance. In these lively and engaging essays, contributors examine historically overlooked works, provide new readings of his best-known novels Pamela and Clarissa, and stake a serious claim for the importance of his final novel, Sir Charles Grandison. Diverse, inventive, and provocative, these essays demonstrate the complexity, relevance, and surprising legacies of Richardson's novels and characters-finding traces in post-conceptual poetry, detective fiction, and in the fantasies of historical romance. Revisiting Richardson reflects on a decade of scholarship while delivering innovative perspectives on an author whose work continues to be indispensable for understanding the history of the novel. Paperback, 9781684485659, $39.95 eBook, 9781684485673, $39.95 Hardcover, 9781684485666, $150.00 Date: April 2025 Pages: 200 Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed
🚨Publication day klaxon🚨 for @bucknellupress.bsky.social *Revisiting Richardson* edited by Rebecca Anne Barr & Bonnie Latimer. Please consider these essays as critical readings in your own teaching & research on Samuel Richardson #18C #SamuelRichardson
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🥹🤩 ¡La espera valió la pena! Hace 7 años le pedí a Esther, de Bio Pic Channel, la biografía de este escritor, ¡y por fin se dio!
Échenle una ojeada 🩷
#escritores #literatura #samuelrichardson #clarissa #pamela #charlesgrandison
🎭 #OTD in #Theatre #History 6 February 1760, #NiccolòPiccinni's #opera buffa "La buona figliuola" (The Good-Natured Girl) was first performed at the Teatro delle Dame, Rome, Italy.
The libretto by #CarloGoldoni was based on #SamuelRichardson 's novel "Pamela."
One to order for your library personal/institutional & course reading lists. I can’t wait to read all of the other essays! #SamuelRichardson #18thC & thanks to the marvellous Dr Rebecca Anne Barr & Dr Bonnie Latimer so being such expert & kind editors.
The preoccupations of eighteenth-century novelist Samuel Richardson—the inequities of gender and sexuality; race and white femininity; masculinity, sadism, and control; religion and selfhood; authorship and artistic form—continue to resonate with contemporary readers. This fresh collection reconsiders his oeuvre, expanding and significantly updating critical debate on its meaning and importance. In these lively and engaging essays, contributors examine historically overlooked works, provide new readings of his best-known novels Pamela and Clarissa, and stake a serious claim for the importance of his final novel, Sir Charles Grandison. Diverse, inventive, and provocative, these essays demonstrate the complexity, relevance, and surprising legacies of Richardson’s novels and characters—finding traces in post-conceptual poetry, detective fiction, and in the fantasies of historical romance. Revisiting Richardson reflects on a decade of scholarship while delivering innovative perspectives on
Exciting news! #c18 _Revisiting Richardson_ will be published in 2025. Essays re-engage questions in Samuel Richardson studies in exciting & innovative ways. Flier below. Please consider for your libraries! #SamuelRichardson I have a chapter on queer time in _Pamela_ amongst stellar company 🕰️
Chapter contract
Nice to sign this today also. A chapter on Samuel Richardson and queer temporality in the offing! #SamuelRichardson #Queer #Temporality
Task: imagine you have accepted a friend request from Pamela and that she has just posted this excerpt from her letter to her mother on Instagram. What would you comment?
Letter XII from Samuel Richardson’s Pamela.
This should be interesting. #sky18C #SamuelRichardson #MediatingPamela
The image on the cover is Samuel Richardson (1804), by Caroline Watson (1760–1814), after Joseph Highmore (1692–1780). The older man portrayed is wearing a long white wig; He has a dark 18th-century style coat on and he is holding a book in his left hand. His right hand is tucked into the front of his coat. Reproduced courtesy of the Yale Center for British Art. This image is in the public domain.
![Mediation, Authorship, and Samuel Richardson:
An Introduction
Louise Curran (bio) and Sören Hammerschmidt (bio)
In the “General Editors’ Preface” to The Cambridge Edition of The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson, Thomas Keymer and Peter Sabor describe how Richardson’s archive of letters “exhibit[s] a vigorous manuscript culture in which correspondences comingle, overlap and interact, generating fresh debate and additional writing through the mechanisms of epistolary sociability.”1 Such epistolary activity is only one example of how Richardson’s works and his character as an author were constructed and continually revised in his lifetime and in the years after his death. The recent publication of the first volumes of a new scholarly edition of Richardson’s complete works and correspondence is a timely moment to reflect on current developments in research on Richardson, and to take particular note of its turn towards more networked, dispersed, or mediated models of authorship ...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:oazuqg55zfzfwueuoplgl7j2/bafkreigztriaawws5o6q3rchkrjdwqerms5kp5tc6pg46qhsxxpbzmd7w4)
Mediation, Authorship, and Samuel Richardson: An Introduction Louise Curran (bio) and Sören Hammerschmidt (bio) In the “General Editors’ Preface” to The Cambridge Edition of The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson, Thomas Keymer and Peter Sabor describe how Richardson’s archive of letters “exhibit[s] a vigorous manuscript culture in which correspondences comingle, overlap and interact, generating fresh debate and additional writing through the mechanisms of epistolary sociability.”1 Such epistolary activity is only one example of how Richardson’s works and his character as an author were constructed and continually revised in his lifetime and in the years after his death. The recent publication of the first volumes of a new scholarly edition of Richardson’s complete works and correspondence is a timely moment to reflect on current developments in research on Richardson, and to take particular note of its turn towards more networked, dispersed, or mediated models of authorship ...
It's Thursday, so why not travel back to 2017:
Special issue "Mediating Richardson,"
introduction by Louise Curran & Sören Hammerschmidt
muse.jhu.edu/article/641781
#18thcentury #SamuelRichardson #AcWri #C18th
#ThrowbackThursday
