… by novelists, was their instrumentalization by tyrannical patriarchs. In his 1771 drama ( The Man of the Family . A Sentimental Comedy ), Charles Jenner displayed a generational conflict between the young Charles and his ‘poor father’ …
Rake
[ Politics & Society / Character / Social interaction ]
… intimate friends and relatives. But it is with fiction that Richardson honed in on his preoccupation with the moral and sentimental education of Britain’s youth, first in 1740 with Pamela , where the figure of the rake is already …