Styles of Meaning and Meanings of Style in Richardson’s Clarissa

In Styles of Meaning and Meanings in Richardson’s Clarissa Gordon Fulton provides a fascinating new study of Samuel Richardson’s masterpiece, connecting the style the characters deploy in their speech and letters with their position in society. A contribution to both critical discussion of eighteenth-century fiction and to discourse stylistics committed to relating literary texts to their social and cultural contexts, this study introduces a mode of literary stylistic analysis with exciting possibilities for cultural studies.