Henry Fielding Joseph Andrews is Fielding’s first novel. It is a classical example of a literary work which started as a parody and ended as an excellent work of art in its own right. The work Fielding intended to parody was Richardson’s first novel Pamela‚ or Virtue Rewarded which had taken England by storm in the years following 1740 when it was first published. In his novel Fielding intended in the beginning to show how Lady Booby (aunt of "Lord B." in Richardson’s novel) attempts the virginity
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Oxford UP. 1933. Print. Barker-Benfield‚ G. J. The Culture of Sensibility: Sex and Society in Eighteenth- Century Britain.1992. Chicago: U of Chicago P‚ 1996. Print. Brissenden‚ R.F. Virtue in Distress: Studies in the Novel of Sentiment from Richardson to Sade. 1st ed. London: Macmillan‚ 1974. Print. Brophy‚ Elizabeth Bergen. Women’s Lives and the Eighteenth-Century English Novel. Tampa: U of South Florida P‚ 1991. Print. Burney‚ Frances. Camilla; or the Picture of Youth. Ed. Edward. A. Bloom
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A. English religious literature 1-Thomas Gramner: “---“A book of common prayer” 2-John Bungan: “---“Grace abounding” B. Definitions 1-A parody: It is aA literary work that imitatesimitate another in order to turn it or hold it up to ridicule. 2-A treatise: AIt is a formal account in writing‚ treating systematically of some subjectssubject. 3-A fabliau: A short metrical tale usually comic‚ frankly coarse‚ often cynical‚ It is a popular short narrative poem in the 12th and 13th centuries
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eighteenth-century representations of marriage tend to exclude happiness and focus on infidelity‚ inequality and immorality? Your answer should refer to any two or more of the following: The Country Wife‚ The School for Scandal‚ Marriage A-la-Mode‚ Pamela. The secret of a successful marriage was one of the most hotly debated topics in the public houses and coffee shops of 18th-century England‚ and the outcome of this fascination with finding the perfect formula set the tone for our modern-day Western
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tradition of novels in which a large number of inserted letters already dominated the narrative The epistolary novel as a genre became popular in the 18th century in the works of such authors as Samuel Richardson‚ with his immensely successful novels Pamela (1740) and Clarissa (1749). In the novel Pamela‚ the female narrator can be found wielding a pen and scribbling her diary entries under the most dramatic and unlikely of circumstances. The first North American novel‚ The History of Emily Montague
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eighteenth-century literature: the mock-heroic and neoclassical (and‚ by extension‚ aristocratic) approach ofAugustans such as Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift; and the popular‚ domestic prose fiction of novelists such as Daniel Defoe and Samuel Richardson. The novel draws on a variety of inspirations. Written "in imitation of the manner of Cervantes‚ the author of Don Quixote" (see title page on right)‚ the work owes much of its humour to the techniques developed by Cervantes‚ and its subject-matter
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individual experience rather than collective tradition. Writers like Milton‚ Chaucer‚ Spenser‚ and even the legendary Greek and Roman poets had derived most of their plots from mythology‚ history‚ legend or previous literature. Daniel Defoe and Samuel Richardson were the first to take the emerging trends of individuality and originality and apply them to
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the forties witnessed a wonderful efflorescence of a new literary genre which was soon to establish itself for all times to come as the dominant literary form. Of course‚ we are referring here to the English novel which was born with Richardson’s Pamela and has been thriving since then. When Matthew Arnold used the epithets "excellent" and "indispensable" for the eighteenth century which had little of good poetry or drama to boast of‚ he was probably paying it due homage for its gift of the novel
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Literary life in England flourishes so impressively in the early years of the 18th century that contemporaries draw parallels with the heyday of Virgil‚ Horace and Ovid at the time of the emperor Augustus. The new Augustan Age becomes identified with the reign of Queen Anne (1702-14)‚ though the spirit of the age extends well beyond her death. The oldest of the Augustan authors‚ Jonathan Swift‚ first makes his mark in 1704 with The Battle of the Books and A Tale of a Tub. These two tracts‚ respectively
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