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Significantly, when we do learn about Sir Charles's and Clementina's family we encounter episodes of monstrous cruelty, abused authority, and heart-rending suffering-and it was precisely these scenes that pumped the tears from readers like Wortley Montagu, Diderot, and Stendhal. This study of sensibility without obsession, sublimity without abjection, only proves de Sade's disturbing thesis: ever since Clarissa, the novelist is bound to explore, not virtue alone, but the uttermost capacities of vice, the deepest «folds» of the human heart. James Grantham Turner Selected Bibliography Barbauld Laetitia, ed. The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson, Selected from the Original Manuscripts. London, 1804. Books Douglas, ed. Joseph Andrews and Shamela. London: Oxford University Press, 1971. Castle Terry. Clarissa's Cyphers: Meaning and Disruption in Richardson's Clarissa. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1982. Diderot Denis. "Eloge de Richardson" (1761), available in all standard editions and in Oeuvres esthetiques, ed. Paul Verniere ...»