![]() ![]() ![]() patriarchy) in protecting children and maintaining family stability. As a saga of tormented innocence, Clarissa raises questions about the efficacy of social and political systems (e.g. It is presented as a religious novel that rejects poetic justice in favour of a more realistic account of terrestrial suffering and heavenly reward. The novel’s chief theme is that of the indispensable duty that children owe to their parents. The story depicts the title character’s victimization at the hands of the rake Robert Lovelace who attempts to seduce Clarissa Harlowe, at first by instigating an intrafamilial conflict regarding her marriage, and later by absconding with her and, ultimately, raping her. Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa (1747-1748) is a novel in letters that remains one of the longest novels in the English language and among the most influential works of fiction in the development of the English novel. ![]()
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