English Literature / Unit 11 ENL 1014 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Samuel Richardson: Pamela and Clarissa
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The idea
Samuel Richardson, a printer, wrote epistolary novels, told in letters. In Pamela, of seventeen forty, a maidservant resists her master, Mr. B, until he reforms and marries her. In Clarissa, of seventeen forty-eight, one of the longest English novels, the libertine Lovelace pursues a virtuous heroine.
In practice
Letters, virtue, a rake.
Where people slip
Epistolary means told through letters.
Your place on the trail
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