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Pamela is the story of a servant girl who successfully resists the sexual advances of her young master until he marries her: thus she transcends the problem of being ‘poor but honest’ via her upward mobility into the gentry.
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Notes
M. Walzer, The Revolution of the Saints (New York, 1968), p. 216.
P. M. Spacks, Imagining a Self ( Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1976), p. 197.
K. Rogers, ‘Richardson’s Empathy with Women’, in A. Diamond and L. R. Edwards (eds), The Authority of Experience: Essays in Feminist Criticism (Amherst, Massachusetts, 1977), pp. 118–36, (p. 119).
I. Konigsberg, Samuel Richardson and the Dramatic Novel ( Lexington, Kentucky, 1968), p. 17.
D. L. Ball, Samuel Richardson’s Theory of Fiction (The Hague, 1971), p. 253.
For useful material regarding Puritan diaries and journals see O. C. Watkins, The Puritan Experience (London, 1972).
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Hall, K.G. (1993). Samuel Richardson: Pamela (1740). In: The Exalted Heroine and the Triumph of Order. Edinburgh Studies in Culture and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12295-0_3
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