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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Raff, Sarah

Titel

The History of Sir Charles Grandison by Samuel Richardson (review)

Ist Teil von

• Eighteenth - Century Studies, 2024, Vol.57 (2), p.271-273

Ort / Verlag

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Quelle

Project MUSE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Jocelyn Harris's authoritative three-volume Oxford edition of 1972 remained checked out of my university's research collection for years on end, and although you could begin reading the novel in the smaller library of the Comparative Literature Department, someone had made off with the last volume. In 52 dense pages, Richardson identifies by topic the "SENTIMENTS with which this Work abounds;" points to quirky or thematically potent subjects of interest such as "Insects, the study of them how far useful" and "CHARLES I. fatal consequences of his marriage to a Popish Princess;" and itemizes incidents, conversations, and even changes of feeling that befall each character (1701, 1737, 1712). In addition to Richardson's own paratextual materials and six intriguingly ugly engravings made by Isaac Taylor for the 1778 edition, volume 4 provides some highly technical lists—of this edition's minute deviations from the copy-text, of compound words hyphenated at the ends of lines, and of lifetime editions with bibliographical descriptions—along with a table designed to aid the transfer of citations from editions using the duodecimo's volume divisions to this one.