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Wood, James 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9560-4100
(2014)
Richardson's Hands.
Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 26 (3).
pp. 331-353.
ISSN 1911-0243
Abstract
Samuel Richardson explores the physical actions of genteel hands in The History of Sir Charles Grandison in order to rethink the conventional link between gentle status and freedom from labour. By showing the role that hands play in the creation and maintenance of social bonds, the novel identifies its genteel and aristocratic characters as figures engaged in a specific form of manual work. Their social labours reflect an emerging professionalism, in which the imperative to labour is not imposed from the outside but inscribed in the individual’s own sense of identity. The work of hands in Sir Charles Grandison reveals how Richardson does not so much avoid the subject of labour as expand the category to include the social interactions of high life.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Research Group |
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| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Oct 2014 10:54 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Sep 2024 11:04 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/50208 |
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