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... Richardson's words , ' by all manner of temp- tations , to seduce her . ... She had recourse to as many innocent ... Richardson put aside the Familiar Letters for a future occasion and , retaining only the letter form for his narra- tive ...
... Richardson's words , ' by all manner of temp- tations , to seduce her . ... She had recourse to as many innocent ... Richardson put aside the Familiar Letters for a future occasion and , retaining only the letter form for his narra- tive ...
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... Richardson's novels . Pamela was an excessively brilliant trial run , executed in the crude contrasts of a moral tract ; and Sir Charles Grandison is too much of its time . The hero represents Richardson's ideal of manly virtue as ...
... Richardson's novels . Pamela was an excessively brilliant trial run , executed in the crude contrasts of a moral tract ; and Sir Charles Grandison is too much of its time . The hero represents Richardson's ideal of manly virtue as ...
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... Richardson wrote Pamela ? The two works have qualities in common , yet the theory that Richardson was in- fluenced by Marivaux is far from generally accepted . The whole question of literary influence , the indebtedness of one writer to ...
... Richardson wrote Pamela ? The two works have qualities in common , yet the theory that Richardson was in- fluenced by Marivaux is far from generally accepted . The whole question of literary influence , the indebtedness of one writer to ...
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
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