Selection of the following (those with name in boldface) are available on the course Bblearn site.

 

Cunard, Candace. ""Labouring in Suspense": Paying Attention to Providence in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa." Eighteenth-Century Fiction 30.3 (2018): 395-418.

Callis, Jonathan P. "Allegories of Error in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa." SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 58.3 (2018): 613-32.

Taylor, Suzanne. "So Close a Connection: Painful Associations in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa." ELH 84.1 (2017): 91-115.

Wagner, Ann K. "Sexual Assault in the Shadow of the Law: Character and Proof in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa." Law & Literature 25.2 (2013): 311-26 [ https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/lal25&i=321 ]

Koehler, Martha J. "Redemptive Spaces: Magdalen House and Prostitution in the Novels and Letters of Richardson." Eighteenth-Century Fiction 22.2 (2009): 249-78.

 

 

Aikins, Janet E. Clarissa and the new woman: Contexts for Richardson scholarship.  Studies in the Literary Imagination, Spring95, Vol. 28 Issue 1, p67, 20p

 

Anderson, Antje Schaum . Gendered Pleasure, Gendered Plot: Defloration as Climax in "Clarissa" and "Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure" The Journal of Narrative Technique, Vol. 25, No. 2 (Spring, 1995), pp. 108-138

 

Batsaki, Yota. Clarissa; or, Rake Versus Usurer.   Representations, Winter2006 Issue 93, p22-48, 27p

 

Binhammer, Katherine. Knowing Love: The Epistemology of Clarissa ELH, Volume 74, Number 4, Winter 2007, pp. 859-879

 

Brophy, Elizabeth Bergen. Samuel Richardson. Boston: Twayne P, 1987. [chapter 3 on Clarissa, pp. 49-81]

 

Brown, Murray L. Authorship and generic exploitation: Why Lovelace must fear `Clarissa.'  Studies in the Novel, Summer98, Vol. 30 Issue 2, p246, 14p

 

Butler, Janet. “The Garden: Early Symbol of Clarissa's Complicity” Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 24, No. 3, Restoration and EighteenthCentury (Summer, 1984), pp. 527-544

 

Carnell, Rachel K.  “Clarissa’s Treasonable Correspondence: Gender, Epistolary Politics, and the Public Sphere.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 10.3 (April 1998): 267-286.

 

Case, Alison A. Plotting Women: Gender and Narration in the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Novel. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1999. [see introduction and also Ch. 1 The Triumph of the Antiplotter, Narration in Clarissa]

 

Chaber, Lois A. Christian Form and Anti-Feminism in Clarissa.   Eighteenth Century Fiction, Apr-Jul2003, Vol. 15 Issue 3/4, p507, 31p

 

Chico, Tita. "Clarissa's Readers." The Eighteenth Century 49.3 (Fall 2008): 273-278. [review]

 

Dachez, Hélène. Crossing Borders in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa; or, the "Ladder of Dependance" Revisited.  Studies in the Literary Imagination, Fall2003, Vol. 36 Issue 2, p25-39,

 

Dussinger, John A. Clarissa, Jacobitism, and the `spirit of the university'.   Studies in the Literary Imagination, Spring95, Vol. 28 Issue 1, p55, 11p

 

Frega, Donnalee. Speaking in hunger: Conditional consumption as discourse in Clarissa.  Studies in the Literary Imagination, Spring95, Vol. 28 Issue 1, p87, 17p

 

Golden, Morris. “Public Context and Imagining Self in Clarissa” Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 25, No. 3, Restoration and EighteenthCentury (Summer, 1985), pp. 575-598

 

Gordon, Scott Paul. “Disinterested Selves: Clarissa and the Tactics of Sentiment” 
ELH Vol. 64, No. 2 (Summer, 1997), pp. 473-502

 

Gunn, Daniel P.  “Is Clarissa Bourgeois Art?” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 10.1 (Oct. 1997): 1-14.

 

Gwilliam, Tassie. "Like Tiresias": Metamorphosis and Gender in "Clarissa" NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, Vol. 19, No. 2 (Winter, 1986), pp. 101-117

 

Hannaford, Richard. “Playing Her Dead Hand: Clarissa's Posthumous Letters” Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Vol. 35, No. 1, Decapitation, Erasure,Gaming, and Orientalism in English Literature (SPRING 1993), pp. 79-102

 

Hernandez, Alex Eric. "Tragedy and the Economics of Providence in Richardson's Clarissa." Eighteenth-Century Fiction 22.4 (2010): 599-630.

 

Hinton, Laura. The heroine's subjection: Clarissa, sadomasochism, and natural law.  Eighteenth-Century Studies, Spring99, Vol. 32 Issue 3, p293, 16p

 

Hynes, Peter. “Curses, Oaths, and Narrative in Richardson's Clarissa” ELH, Vol. 56, No. 2 (Summer, 1989), pp. 311-326

 

Keymer, Tom. “Clarissa's Death, Clarissa's Sale, and the Text of the Second Edition.” The Review of English Studies, New Series, Vol. 45, No. 179 (Aug., 1994), pp. 389-396

 

Kibbie, Ann. The Estate, the Corpse, and the Letter: Posthumous Possession in Clarissa.” ELH, Volume 74, Number 1, Spring 2007, pp. 117-143

 

Koehler, Martha J. Epistolary Closure and Triangular Return in Richardson's "Clarissa" The Journal of Narrative Technique, Vol. 24, No. 3 (Fall, 1994), pp. 153-172

 

Koehler, Martha J. "Redemptive Spaces: Magdalen House and Prostitution in the Novels and Letters of Richardson." Eighteenth-Century Fiction 22.2 (2009-10): 249-278.

 

Lamb, Jonathan. “The Fragmentation of Originals and ClarissaAuthor(s)” Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 28, No. 3, Restoration and EighteenthCentury (Summer, 1988), pp. 443-459

 

Lee, Joy Kyunghae. "The Commodification of Virtue: Chastity and the Virginal Body in Richardson's Clarissa." The Eighteenth Century 36.1 (1995): 38-54.

 

Lipsedge, Karen. "'I was also absent at my dairy-house': The Representation and the Symbolic Function of the Dairy House in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa." Eighteenth-Century Fiction 22.1 (2009): 29-48.

 

Lipsedge, Karen.  Representations of the Domestic Parlour in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa, 1747-48.   Eighteenth Century Fiction, Apr2005, Vol. 17 Issue 3, p391-423, 33p

 

Loewen-Schmidt, Chad. "Pity, or the Providence of the Body in Richardson's Clarissa." Eighteenth-Century Fiction 22.1 (2009): 1-28.

 

Macpherson, Sandra. Lovelace, Ltd. ELH, Vol. 65, No. 1 (Spring, 1998), pp. 99-121

 

Marks, Sylvia Kasey.  "Clarissa" as Conduct Book” South Atlantic Review, Vol. 51, No. 4 (Nov., 1986), pp. 3-16

 

Martin, Mary Patricia.  Reading reform in Richardson's Clarissa.   Studies in English Literature (Rice), Summer97, Vol. 37 Issue 3, p595, 20p

 

McGirr, Elaine. Why Lovelace Must Die.  Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Fall2003/Spring2004, Vol. 37 Issue 1/2, p5-23, 19

 

Nazar, Hina. “Judging Clarissa’s Heart.” ELH, Volume 79, Number 1, Spring 2012, pp. 85-109 [see also Nazar's book Enlightened Sentiments (2012)

 

Oliver, Kathleen M. "'With My Hair in Crystal': Mourning Clarissa." Eighteenth-Century Fiction 23.1 (2010): 35-60.

 

Osland, Dianne. “Complaisance and Complacence, and the Perils of Pleasing in "Clarissa" Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 40, No. 3, Restoration and EighteenthCentury (Summer, 2000), pp. 491-509

 

Park, Julie. "I SHALL ENTER HER HEART": FETISHIZING FEELING IN CLARISSA.   Studies in the Novel, Winter2005, Vol. 37 Issue 4, p371-393, 23p

 

Pascoe, Judith. Before I Read Clarissa I Was Nobody: Aspirational Reading and Samuel Richardson's Great Novel.   Hudson Review, Summer2003, Vol. 56 Issue 2, p239, 15p

 

Pettit, Alexander. Wit, satire, and comedy: Clarissa and the problem of literary precedent.  Studies in the Literary Imagination, Spring95, Vol. 28 Issue 1, p35, 19p

 

Potter, Tiffany.  “A Certain Sign That He Is One of Us”: Clarissa’s Other Libertines.”  Eighteenth-Century Fiction 11.4 (July 1999): 403-420.

 

Rain, D.C. Deconstructing Richardson Terry Castle and Clarissa's Ciphers.  English Studies, Nov95, Vol. 76 Issue 6, p520, 12p

 

Reeves, James Bryant. "Posthumous Presence in Richardson's Clarissa." SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 53.3 (Summer 2013): 601-621.

 

Richetti, John. Lovelace goes shopping at Smith's: Power, play, and class privilege in Clarissa.   Studies in the Literary Imagination, Spring95, Vol. 28 Issue 1, p23, 11p

 

Rosen, David, and Aaron Santesso “The Panopticon Reviewed: Sentimentalism and Eighteenth-Century Interiority” ELH, Volume 77, Number 4, Winter 2010, pp. 1041-1059

 

Scheiber, Andrew J. "Between Me and Myself": Writing as Strategy and Theme in Clarissa Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Vol. 30, No. 4 (WINTER 1988), pp. 496-509

 

Sherwin, David. The Institutionalization of Benevolence in the Eighteenth-Century Social Welfare State: The Great Charity Debate in Samuel Richardson's 'Clarissa.'  Journal of Church & State, Summer2000, Vol. 42 Issue 3, p539, 21

 

Spacks, Patricia Meyer. The grand misleader: Self-love and self-division in Clarissa.  Studies in the Literary Imagination, Spring95, Vol. 28 Issue 1, p7, 15p

 

Steele, Kathryn L. "Clarissa's Silence." Eighteenth-Century Fiction 23.1 (2010): 1-34.

 

Stephanson, Raymond. Richard's "Nerves": The Physiology of Sensibility in Clarissa Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 49, No. 2 (Apr. - Jun., 1988), pp. 267-285

 

Stuber, Florian. Clarissa: A religious novel?  Studies in the Literary Imagination, Spring95, Vol. 28 Issue 1, p105, 20p

 

Stuber, Florian. On Fathers and Authority in ClarissaAuthor(s) Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 25, No. 3, Restoration and EighteenthCentury (Summer, 1985), pp. 557-574

 

Stuber, Florian and Margaret Anne Doody. The Clarissa Project and Clarissa's Reception Text, Vol. 12 (1999), pp. 123-141

 

Thompson, Peggy.  “Abuse and Atonement: The Passion of Clarissa Harlowe.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 11.3 (April 1999): 255-270.

 

Turner, James Grantham. "Richardson and His Circle." The Columbia History of the British Novel. Ed. John Richetti. New York: Columbia UP, 1994. 73-101.

 

Wehrs, Donald. Irony, Storytelling, and the Conflict of Interpretations in Clarissa ELH, Vol. 53, No. 4 (Winter, 1986), pp. 759-777

Williams, Kate. "'The Force of Language, and the Sweets of Love': Eliza Haywood and the Erotics of Reading in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa." Lumen: Selected Proceedings from the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies / Lumen : travaux choisis de la Société canadienne d'étude du dix-huitième siècle, vol. 23 (2004): 309-323.

Zias, Heather. Who Can Believe? Sentiment vs. Cynicism in Richardson's Clarissa.  Eighteenth-Century Life, Fall2003, Vol. 27 Issue 3, p99-123

 

ZIGAROVICH, JOLENE.  COURTING DEATH: NECROPHILIA IN SAMUEL RICHARDSON'S CLARISSA.  Studies in the Novel, Summer2000, Vol. 32 Issue 2, p112, 17p

 

Zionkowski, Linda. "Clarissa and the Hazards of the Gift." Eighteenth-Century Fiction 23.3 (2011): 471-494.