Chapter 1: Describing CLARISSA's Narrative.

Clarissa: Or, the History of a Young Lady (Book : Richardson); Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761; Pride & Prejudice (Book : Austen); Austen, Jane, 1775-1817; Narratives

Chapter 1 of the book "Clarissa's Narrators" is presented. It presents a description of the narrative of Samuel Richardson's novel "Clarissa or the History of a Young Lady." The author compares the novel to Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" explaining that Austen's novel provides the readers with a single narrator, Elizabeth Bennet. The reader of "Clarissa" will encounter greater difficulty because of the narrative density that the author fosters when allowing his characters to be their own narrators.