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The Body in Samuel Richardson's "Clarissa": Contexts of and Contradictions in the Development of Character (review)

Brigitte Glaser's book contains a wealth of information about the contexts of Richardson's Clarissa. With Foucault as her presiding genius, Glaser announces that her study "concentrates not only on the examination of the novel's discursive context and culturalhistorical background but also on the investigation of particular, occasionally neglected, themes, such as the body, power, the care of the self, gender and friendship." Explaining that her approach "reveals the novel as located within a specific cultural context while at the same time influenced by various literary traditions as well as mythological notions and concepts" (p. 1), she promises to use the various discourses offered by other genres and literary forms and examine "the changing conception of gender, the new attitudes toward sexuality and desire, the growing emphasis on subjectivity, and questions of power and class" (p. 32). Frequent subheadings identify the wide range of themes she draws on to demonstrate how thoroughly the novel is constructed by its own particular historical moment.