第一讲TheRiseoftheEnglishNovel.pptVIP

* Pamela Epistolary form (the heroine writing to her parents); Moral instruction – too practical (virtue is no more than a product for sale)— criticism (Fielding’s Joseph Andrews) * Clarissa Harlowe (In the form of letters passing esp. between Clarissa Harlowe her friend Miss Howe between the villain Love-) lace and his friend John Belford. Clarissa’s mercenary family wants her to marry a repulsive man of their choice for their financial convenience; She resists with the aid of Lovelace, who, however, is a complete cynic about feminine virtue, has made a vocation of seduction. Her virtue is exemplary she resists him steadfastly even when he succeeds in carrying her off keeping her captive. Eventually he succeeds in raping her when she is drugged. She dies of shame Lovelace is killed in a duel. Features: A real masterpiece, though too long; Improvement on structure– 4 people writing to narrate the same event -- fuller narrative variety of narrative perspectives– precursor of Henry James; Sentimentalism– influencing Rousseau in his The New Heloise (1761), which influenced in its turn Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther; Detailed psychological description; New female character: independence dignity; Defect: the main characters lack the complexity of later novelists’ work; Different interpretation: Lovelace’s viciousness is partly a protest against the profound sexual hypocrisy of the age, while Clarissa’s chastity is partly a matter of self- deception. 3.Henry Fielding (1707- 1754) a.Basic Information: * Aristocratic birth; * Drama writing in his early career The Historical Register for the Year 1736 – a satire on the government, which provoked the Licensing Act in 1737 restricting the liberty of the theatre. * Father of English novel. b.Fielding English Novel * The novel of Fielding’s t