Sir Charles Grandison 4 Volume Set

The comprehensive scholarly edition of The History of Sir Charles Grandison, the most important English courtship novel before Austen.

Samuel Richardson (Author), E. Derek Taylor (Edited by), Melvyn New (Edited by), Elizabeth Kraft (Edited by)

9780521833066, Cambridge University Press

Multiple-component retail product, published 12 May 2022

3000 pages
24.5 x 16.2 x 12.6 cm, 4.32 kg

'Any reader who has fully absorbed the terrors of Pamela's marriage or pursued to the end the intensities of Clarissa will want to read Grandison too, and so will Jane Austen fans curious about the novel said to have been her favorite. What awaits them is a love story fueled by embarrassment, a forerunner to the modern romantic comedy but also a worthy successor to Clarissa, in which the protagonists face situations so abysmally awkward as to require of them heroic feats of tact and moral imagination. That we now have a magisterial scholarly edition in print is cause for celebration.' Sarah Raff, Eighteenth-Century Studies, on The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Samuel Richardson

One of the most important novels of the eighteenth-century, Sir Charles Grandison [1753] shaped the English courtship novel, and was loved and admired by both Jane Austen and George Eliot. The book follows the life of Sir Charles, a man parallel in virtue with Richardson's female paragons Clarissa and Pamela; and a response to the fallible protagonist Tom Jones in Fielding's popular satire of moralising novels. Forming part of the first full scholarly edition of Richardson's complete works, comprehensive general and textual introductions significantly revise and advance understanding of the composition and printing history of Richardson's final novel, and reveal the central place of Sir Charles in the literature of the period. Including Richardson's Historical Index for the first time in any edition, extensive annotations and expansive notes also give readers crucial context, and provides scholars with paths to follow for future research.

Volume 1: List of Illustrations
General Editors' Preface
Acknowledgements
Chronology
List of Abbreviations
General Introduction
Textual Introduction
The History of Sir Charles Grandison (1 & 2). Volume 2: The History of Sir Charles Grandison (3 & 4). Volume 3: The History of Sir Charles Grandison (5 & 6, Concluding note) Volume 4: The History of Sir Charles Grandison (Index: Historical and Characteristical, Similes and Allusions, Unlucky Omission, To the Public)
Collation of Chapter Numbering
Emendations
Word-division
Bibliographical Descriptions of Early Editions
Explanatory Notes
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary reference works [DSR], Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers [DSK], Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [DSBF], Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 [DSBD]