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- W7882401 abstract "In its barest narrative terms, Samuel Richardson's Clarissa, or The History of a Young Lady (1747-1748) is a novel in letters about how a notorious libertine kidnaps and rapes a young woman to seek revenge on her family and test her virtue. The young woman, exceptional in almost every regard from the transcendental to the mundane-in beauty, writing, wit, needlework, French, housekeeping, chastity and worship of God-unknowingly walks into the charming libertine's schemes by writing to him in an attempt to reform him, and rebelling against her parents, who want her to marry someone else. Despite her subsequent fall, the loss of her virginity, she recovers her virtuous identity through starving herself and thus wasting the body that has been defiled against her will. In death, able to return to her native skies, she is more glorious than ever. Throughout this tale, raised to epic proportions in its development of intrigue over that eighteenth-century obsession-female virtue-the status of Clarissa's body remains central, and to the very end, elusive. Within this elusive rendition, the details of such body parts as her heart and hymen become all-important not only to the libertine character, but also, to the novel's construction of femininity. According to recent histories of sexuality and medicine, we owe our understanding of the sexed body-the idea that a female body constitutes a separate category from a male body-to the eighteenth century (Laqueur, Making Sex and The Making of the Modern Body and Schiebinger). The eighteenth century is also more traditionally credited for the invention of the novel. In frequently citing Richardson's earlier work Pamela (1740) as the first English novel, standard literary history implicates the novel's beginnings in a" @default.
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- W7882401 title "I SHALL ENTER HER HEART: FETISHIZING FEELING IN CLARISSA" @default.
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