Volume : I, Issue : II, October - 2012

Cultivating Principles of Virtue in the Youth: Samuel Richardson�s Pamela

Dr. Shifan Thaha

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The eighteenth century is also called the’ Age of Reason’ as the thinkers and writers of this period thought and expressed their views rationally. The writers aimed at reforming the society and therefore, through long fictional narratives exposed excesses and moral corruption. With the emergence of the middle class, the readership had shifted from elite to middle class. The writers made use of wit and satire in their stories to make them appealing to the common man who was self–made and self–reliant. For this purpose, the writers of this period adapted a collection of techniques known “formal realism,” to represent a more particular and circumstantial view of life. In this paper an attempt is made to study Samuel Richardson’s Pamela, from three perspectives .a) the transition from the novel of adventure to the novel of character. b) struggle between two opposed conceptions of sex and marriage and c) masculine and feminine gender roles .  

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Dr. Shifan Thaha Cultivating Principles of Virtue in the Youth: Samuel Richardson�s Pamela Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.II, Issue.I October 2012

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