Bøker av E. Derek Taylor

What distinguishes Clarissa from Samuel Richardson's other novels is Richardson's awareness of how his plot would end. In the inevitability of its conclusion, its engagement with every category of human experience and its author's wish to communicate religious truth, E. Derek Taylor suggests Clarissa is the Paradise Lost of the eighteenth century.

What distinguishes Clarissa from Samuel Richardson's other novels is Richardson's unique awareness of how his plot would end. In the inevitability of its conclusion, in its engagement with virtually every category of human experience, and in its author's desire to communicate religious truth.