Dr Goldberg argues that Samuel Richardson had expressed a powerful
and hitherto unperceived sexual mythology in Clarissa, making it
the popular masterpiece it quickly became. There had never before
been a work of literature in which the rape of a woman became the
moral indictment of an age. Clarissa was a book which changed
minds. It is not surprising that Diderot, the French philosophe,
drew on Richardson as the inspiration for his own novel, La
Religieuse. Richardson's novels had achieved Diderot's declared aim
as editor of the great Encyclopedie: to change the way people
think. For both writers it had become clear that the boudoir had
replaced the Puritan closet and the Catholic confessional as the
location for tests of virtue. Dr Goldberg offers an original,
comparative reading of the works of these French and English
innovators. She leaves us in little doubt that our understanding of
what it means to be a woman in our culture owes much to the
turbulent world of Richardson and Diderot.
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