...Richard Hauer Costa Copyright © 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 THE EPISTOLARY MONITOR IN PAMELA By RICHARDHAUER COSTA The demurrers to Fielding’s-or anyone’s-simplistic theories about Pamela, especially the demurrers of the last two...

...Pamela Cheek Libertines and Radicals in Early Modern London: Sexuality, Politics,and Literary Culture, 1630-1685. By James Grantham Turner. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 2002. xxii + 343 pp.; Schooling Sex:Libertine Literature and Erotic Education in Italy, France, and England,1534-1685...

...Pamela Cheek Pamela Cheek is associate professor of French and comparative literature at the University of New Mexico. She is author of Sexual Antipodes: Enlightenment Globalization and the Placing of Sex (2003) and several articles on Enlightenment accounts of sexuality and gender...

... death from a tower. Before either is married, the men are overcome with desire for the Duke’s two daughters: Musidorus attempts to rape Pamela while she sleeps, and Pyrocles ravishes Philoclea. Standing before the strict, absolutist judge, Euarchus, the knights are found guilty—and then vindicated...

..., sometimes in mild disrepute, that the novel’s special province is the cultivation of interiority. Depth psychology, so the argument runs, was formalized through novels like Pamela , where it was put on display for eager members of the reading public to learn to perform. But printers and publishers, we also...

... background of Pamela, for example, is a shortened version of my own discus- sion in Samuel Richardson and /he Dramatic Novel, with only one addi- tional play thrown in for originality. More often, Doody takes sources dis- cussed by others and stretches out such observations at length. On occasion...

... own novel, has a sharply ironic perspective on people and events from which Richardson eventually feels compelled to redeem her. She is thus a central consciousness (she reads and comments on almost all the letters of the novel); she is passive (unlike Pamela and Clarissa, she does little...

... Donovan into overstate- ment. His chapter on Moll Flanders exaggerates the consistency and control of Defoe’s irony, lvhile his treatment of I’cr11zcIn-altlioiigh it is refreshingly free of the standard argument concerning Pamela’s “morality”-iiiakes clainis for Richardson’s handling...

..., “that the best way of making sense of the modest woman is by making stories” (p. 32). And she examines six narra- tives of modesty: Pamela, Fanny Hill, Evelina, MansJield Park, Vilktte, and Wives and Daughters. Yeazell’s readings are constantly alert to the differences among these texts...

...Lawrence M. Clopper Raabe Pamela. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1990. 196 pp. $30.00. Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 REVIEWS Imitating God: The Allegory of Faith in “Piers Plowman” B. By Pamela Raabe. Athens: The University...

... only by a further act of judgment, in a typical regress that affirms the priority and inevitability of judgment. 8 ▪ ▪ ▪ Joseph Andrews begins as a mock-domestic novel of the Pamela type, with Joseph (Pamela’s alleged brother) in the service of Lady Booby and subject to her sexual...

... concerns that repeatedly stonewall the pursuit of narrative closure, resulting in “a book- length face-off between a desiring subject and an ethical one” (174). In Pamela (1740) Richardson takes up the baton for an “ethical” fiction again, using Aubin...

... that repeatedly stonewall the pursuit of narrative closure, resulting in “a book- length face-off between a desiring subject and an ethical one” (174). In Pamela (1740) Richardson takes up the baton for an “ethical” fiction again, using Aubin as a “point of entrance...

... that repeatedly stonewall the pursuit of narrative closure, resulting in “a book- length face-off between a desiring subject and an ethical one” (174). In Pamela (1740) Richardson takes up the baton for an “ethical” fiction again, using Aubin as a “point of entrance...

... that repeatedly stonewall the pursuit of narrative closure, resulting in “a book- length face-off between a desiring subject and an ethical one” (174). In Pamela (1740) Richardson takes up the baton for an “ethical” fiction again, using Aubin as a “point of entrance...

... fantasy but rather in a definite artistic tradition (p. ZOO); he notes in the one paragraph he devotes to Richardson’s “conscious” crafts- manship that his art becomes apparent only after the emotional climaxes of Pamela and Clarissa (p. 191); and in his discussion of “ ‘nature’ as against...

... to an extraordinary new degree. This claim may seem counterintuitive, if one thinks of the enormous significance attached to marriage plots in a host of eighteenth-century novels from Pamela to Evelina and beyond. Yet one can begin to see the extent of Austen’s innovation...

... of sociosexual hierarchy: “What marks Pamela as something new is exactly its refusal of the objective ‘realities’ of social rank and distinct gender identities and its highlighting of the negotiations whereby those ‘realities’ can be achieved or established by a particular...

... of Behn, Man- ley, and Haywood. Beginning with the “ahistorical gender essentialism” of Fantomina, Richetti contrasts Haywood’s use of the masquerade with Richardson’s challenging of sociosexual hierarchy: “What marks Pamela as something new is exactly...

... of Behn, Man- ley, and Haywood. Beginning with the “ahistorical gender essentialism” of Fantomina, Richetti contrasts Haywood’s use of the masquerade with Richardson’s challenging of sociosexual hierarchy: “What marks Pamela as something new is exactly...