English Novel [ Literary & Artistic genres ]
… form of sociability, founded not on bonds of sympathy, philia or a spirit of benevolence, but rather on a ‘Spirit of Faction’ which does not hinder the exchange of ideas as suggested by Joseph Addison, 4 but which, conversely, stimulates … shared by numerous readers, including Fielding and Haywood, in discovering Pamela , which led to the constitution of a faction called ‘the Anti-Pamelists’, who questioned Richardson’s moral purpose as well as the didactic intention ascribed …
Antagonism | Conflict | Fiction | Parody | Rivalry
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