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Words, Books, Images, and the Long Eighteenth Century: Essays for Allen Reddick
Edited by Antoinina Bevan Zlatar, Mark Ittensohn, Enit Karafili Steiner and Olga Timofeeva
[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures 16] 2021
► pp. 189–206

Picturing the harmonious body in Richardson’s novels

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Article outline
  • I.Contested bodies in Pamela and Clarissa
  • II.The harmonious body in Grandison
  • III.The maternal body in Grandison
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
Published online: 16 December 2021
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