Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Samuel Richardson

Lisa Zunshine is assistant professor of English at the University of Kentucky, Lexington. She is the author of Bastards and Foundlings: Representations of Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century England (2005) and Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel (2006) and the editor of Nobokov at the Limits (1999) and Philanthropy and Fiction 1698-1818 (2006). Her essays have appeared in Poetics Today; Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation; Narrative: Philosophy and Literature; Eighteenth-Century Life; The Eighteenth-Century Novel; and Modern Philology. Jocelyn Harris, professor of English at the University of Otago and member of the advisory board of the Cambridge Richardson Project, edited Richardson's Sir Charles Grandison (1972), published Samuel Richardson (1987) and Jane Austen's Art of Memory (1989), and wrote the introduction to Volume 1 of Richardson's Commentary on Clarissa 1747-65 (1998). She is currently completing a book entitled Jane Austen's Persuasion and the Myth of Limitation.

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