It has to do with what one might call along with Philippe Hamon diffuse speech, 4 as opposed to direct, inasmuch as it is a means of indirectly characterizing participants of the action through their connection to the signifier. 6 Roland Barthes, “Proust et les noms,” Nouveaux essais critiques, Œuvres complètes IV, (Paris: Seui (.)ĢThe name and the associated process of naming are in Clarissa not only a point of contention but also the very goal of the narrative.5 Linda Kaufman, Discourses of Desire, Genre and Epistolary Fiction (Ithaca: Cornell University Pres (.).4 Philippe Hamon, Le Personnel du roman: le système des personnages dans les Rougon-Macquart d'Emile (.).

It reminds us, along with Ian Watt, that characters are christened and baptized ―and that their names may not be as arbitrary as ours. 1 This nameless novel, Richardson’s patronym not appearing on the title page, 2 emphasizes from the start the importance of the convention of naming. Lovelace” while MRS SINCLAIR is “the pretended name of a private brothel keeper in London”. TOMLISON, we are told, is “the assumed name of a vile and artful pander to the debaucheries of Mr. It emphasizes the arbitrariness of the name in the novel. 3 Ian Watt, “The Naming of Characters in Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding,” The Review of English Stu (.)ġThe dramatis personae presented at the onset of Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa is not only a gallery of portraits but also one of names.

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