『クラリッサ』(the History of a Young Lady)は、サミュエル・リチャードソンによって書かれ、1748年に出版された書簡体小説。常に家族からの妨害を受けながらも美徳を追求しようとするヒロインの悲劇を描いている。一般にリチャードソンの傑作とされており、英語で書かれた最も長い長編小説の一つ。
John Carroll, "Lovelace as Tragic Hero," University of Toronto Quarterly 42 (1972): 14-25.
Anthony Winner, "Richardson's Lovelace: Character and Prediction," Texas Studies in Literature and Language 14 (1972): 53-75.
Jonathan Loesberg, "Allegory and Narrative in Clarissa," Novel 15 (Fall 1981): 39-59.
Leo Braudy, "Penetration and Impenetrability in Clarissa," in New Aspects of the Eighteenth Century: Essays from the English Institute, ed. Philip Harth (New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1974).
John Traugott, "Molesting Clarissa," Novel 15 (1982): 163-70.
Sue Warrick Doederlein, "Clarissa in the Hands of the Critics," Eighteenth-Century Studies 16 (1983): 401-14.
Terry Castle, "Lovelace's Dream," Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 13 (1984): 29-42.
Sarah Fielding, Remarks on 'Clarissa', introduction by Peter Sabor (Augustan Reprint Society, 231-32). Facsimile reprint 1749 (Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 1985).
Florian Stuber, "On Fathers and Authority in 'Clarissa'," 25 (Summer 1985): 557-74.
Donald R. Wehrs, "Irony, Storytelling and the Conflict of Interpretation in Clarissa, ELH 53 (1986): 759-78.
Margaret Anne Doody, "Disguise and Personality in Richardson's Clarissa," Eighteenth-Century Life n.s. 12, no. 2 (1988): 18-39.
Jonathan Lamb, "The Fragmentation of Originals and Clarissa," SEL 28 (1988): 443-59.
Raymond Stephanson, "Richardson's 'Nerves': The Philosophy of Sensibility in 'Clarissa'," Journal of the History of Ideas 49 (1988): 267-85.
Peter Hynes, "Curses, Oaths, and Narrative in Richardson's 'Clarissa'," ELH 56 (1989): 311-26.
Brenda Bean, "Sight and Self-Disclosure: Richardson's Revision of Swift's 'The Lady's Dressing Room,'" Eighteenth-Century Life 14 (1990): 1-23.
Thomas O. Beebee, "Clarissa" on the Continent: Translation and Seduction (University Park: Pennsylvania State Univ., 1990).
Raymond F. Hilliard, "Clarissa and Ritual Cannibalism," PMLA 105 (1990): 1083-97.
Nicholas Hudson, "Arts of Seduction and the Rhetoric of Clarissa," Modern Language Quarterly 51 (1990): 25-43.
Helen M. Ostovich, "'Our Views Must Now Be Different': Imprisonment and Friendship in 'Clarissa'," Modern Language Quarterly 52 (1991): 153-69.
Tom Keymer, Richardson's "Clarissa" and the Eighteenth-Century Reader (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1992). Probably the most important book-length study of Richardson after the first wave of Kinkead-Weakes, Doody, Flynn, and others in the 1970s and 1980s.
David C. Hensley, "Thomas Edwards and the Dialectics of Clarissa's Death Scene," Eighteenth-Century Life 16, no. 3 (1992): 130-52.
Mildred Sarah Greene, "The French Clarissa," in Man and Nature: Proceedings of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, ed. Christa Fell and James Leith (Edmonton: Academic Printing & Publishing, 1992), pp. 89-98.
Richard Hannaford, "Playing Her Dead Hand: Clarissa's Posthumous Letters," Texas Studies in Literature and Language 35 (Spring 1993): 79-102.
Lois E. Bueler, Clarissa's Plots (Newark, DE: Associated Univ. Presses, 1994).
Tom Keymer, "Clarissa's Death, Clarissa's Sale, and the Text of the Second Edition," Review of English Studies 45 (Aug. 1994): 389-96.
Martha J. Koehler, "Epistolary Closure and Triangular Return in Richardson's 'Clarissa'," Journal of Narrative Technique 24 (Fall 1994): 153-72.
Margaret Anne Doody, "Heliodorus Rewritten: Samuel Richardson's 'Clarissa' and Frances Burney's 'Wanderer'," in The Search for the Ancient Novel, ed. James Tatum (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1994), pp. 117-31.
Joy Kyunghae Lee, "The Commodification of Virtue: Chastity and the Virginal Body in Richardson's 'Clarissa'," The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 36 (Spring 1995): 38-54.
Townsend, Alex, Autonomous Voices: An Exploration of Polyphony in the Novels of Samuel Richardson, 2003, Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., New York, Wien, 2003, ISBN 978-3-906769-80-6 / US-ISBN 978-0-8204-5917-2
Hou, Jian. Haoqiu Zhuan yu Clarissa: Liangzhong shehui jiazhi de aiqing gushi" (A Tale of Chivalry and Love and Clarissa: romantic fiction based on two distinct social value systems), Zhongguo xiaoshuo bijiao yanjiu, p. 95-116.