Record Number: 4089
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
?In his Sir Charles Grandison, the inherent vulgarity, egotism and prolixity of Richardson?s character breakout with a latitude unexampled and uncontrolled. His personages, forever listening to or repeating their own eulogy, forever covering their own selfishness with arrogant humility, preaching forever in a monotonous key of maudlin morality, bowing on hands, and asking the benison of aunts and grandmothers, are now as flat and faded as the figures in an ancient tapestry but, like them, compensate in some measure for the dullness of the design by the fidelity of the costume.?
Century:1700-1799, 1800-1849
Date:unknown
Country:Ireland
Timen/a
Place:n/a
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:1782
Socio-Economic Group:Clergy (includes all denominations)
Occupation:Curate
Religion:Christian (Church of England)
Country of Origin:Ireland
Country of Experience:Ireland
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Sir Charles Grandison
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsLondon, 1754
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:4089
Source:Charles Robert Maturin
Editor:n/a
Title:The British Review and London Critical Journal
Place of Publication:n/a
Date of Publication:1818
Vol:xi (1818)
Page:40-1
Additional Comments:
Review article on Sir Charles Grandison and Harrington and Ormond by Maria Edgeworth.
Citation:
Charles Robert Maturin, The British Review and London Critical Journal, (1818), xi (1818), p. 40-1, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=4089, accessed: 22 November 2024
Additional Comments:
None
