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Page 105
... Richardson began publishing his four - volume epis- tolary novel Clarissa in 1747 , sixty years after Bunyan pub- lished The Pilgrim's Progress and eighty years after the Restora- tion . Writing for a bourgeois audience heavily ...
... Richardson began publishing his four - volume epis- tolary novel Clarissa in 1747 , sixty years after Bunyan pub- lished The Pilgrim's Progress and eighty years after the Restora- tion . Writing for a bourgeois audience heavily ...
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Puritan Doctrine and the Representation of Women Margaret Olofson Thickstun. Richardson , like Milton , explores this proposition through a woman's struggle to stand fast in the face of assaults on her chastity . Richardson's Pamela ...
Puritan Doctrine and the Representation of Women Margaret Olofson Thickstun. Richardson , like Milton , explores this proposition through a woman's struggle to stand fast in the face of assaults on her chastity . Richardson's Pamela ...
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... Richardson's " respect for Clar- issa's integrity led him to push the Puritan code forward to the point at which its flaw was completely revealed , at which it broke down as a standard of conduct for this world . " I would argue that ...
... Richardson's " respect for Clar- issa's integrity led him to push the Puritan code forward to the point at which its flaw was completely revealed , at which it broke down as a standard of conduct for this world . " I would argue that ...
Contents
Spensers Brides Errant | 37 |
Subsuming | 87 |
The Sanctification | 105 |
Copyright | |
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