A virtuous young woman is abducted and destroyed by the rake Lovelace, told in a vast web of letters. Richardson's monumental tragic novel.
Books mentioned in Clarissa (3)
The Orphan by Thomas Otway: “The best Plays of this kind are _The Orphan_, _Venice Preserved_, _Alexander the Great_, _Theodosius_, _All for Love_, _Oedipus_, _Oroonoko_, _Othello_, &c.”
Venice Preserv'd by Thomas Otway: “The best Plays of this kind are _The Orphan_, _Venice Preserved_, _Alexander the Great_, _Theodosius_, _All for Love_, _Oedipus_, _Oroonoko_, _Othello_, &c.”
The Rival Queens; or, the Death of Alexander the Great by Nathaniel Lee: “The best Plays of this kind are _The Orphan_, _Venice Preserved_, _Alexander the Great_, _Theodosius_, _All for Love_, _Oedipus_, _Oroonoko_, _Othello_, &c.”
Books that mention Clarissa (12)
The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson: “The book he had on board with him was Mr. Richardson’s famous _Clarissa_!”
Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm: “after the publication of “Clarissa Harlowe” she spent practically all her time in reading novels”
Lady into Fox by David Garnett: “he went to the shelf and fetched down a volume of the "History of Clarissa Harlowe," which he had begun to read aloud to her”
The Wild Ass's Skin by Honoré de Balzac: “One would need to be very much in love to share the furious transports of Lovelace, as one reads Clarissa Harlowe.”
Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin: “Dreaming herself the heroine Of the romances she preferred, Clarissa, Julia, Delphine,”
How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom: “its great monuments extend from Samuel Richardson's Clarissa through Marcel Proust's In Search ofLost Time.”
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson: “I have three volumes to go, and then I shall begin Clarissa Harlowe, I think.”
Atonement by Ian McEwan: “as she read her way through Richardson's Clarissa.”
Italo Calvino by Martin McLaughlin: “a vast range of allusions to contemporary texts from Lesage's picaresque novel Gil Blas to Richardson's Clarissa and Fielding's Jonathan Wild.”
Like by Ali Smith: “'anything to put off reading Clarissa, I've got an essay for tomorrow ... it's all about rape'”
Light, Wind and Dreams by Atsushi Nakajima: “To me the plot, the story, of a work is like the backbone in a vertebrate. Scorning events in a novel is a pose, a child trying to look grown up. Compare Clarissa Harlowe and Robinson Crusoe. [auto-translated]”