English Novel [ Literary & Artistic genres ]
… Image Legend Front pages of Idalia (1723) and Roxana (1742) A victim of its own success, Samuel Richardson ’s Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded , first published on November 6 th , 1740, triggered a vast variety of fictional and non-fictional … Dutchess; or, Treachery Rewarded recounts the story of a lady’s maid, Gigantilla, who, under the false pretense of virtue, schemes to entrap the duke of Malfi into marriage, thus becoming a duchess. Thirteen years later, Richardson chose to reward not treachery or deceit, but genuine virtue, embodied by Pamela, thus detaching himself from these amatory fictions, so popular during the 1720s, that feature …
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