EXAM - English literature 2
A Journal
of the Plague Year – graphically reconstructs the terrible events of 1665.
Samuel Richardson: Pamela: or Virtue Rewarded – transformed the role of women in fiction. Form of
letter, maidservant, defence of her sexual virtue, genteel marriage. Created a female prototype. Clarissa –
innocent country girl, corrupted by the city, dies a saintly death. His work set 2 directions: exploration of
an individual’s psychological and moral awareness, to purvey vicarious sexual experience and thus fulfil
adolescent fantasies.
Henry Fielding: established a pattern for comic novel. Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones (masterpiece), Amelia.
Traces the hero’s life from a childhood and youth spent in Somerset through an unstable period on road,
peopled by motley (kirev) cast of characters, ending in London. Brought to novels vivid narrative
technique and wide knowledge of the ways of the world. Paints mid-Georgian society.
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