Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Henry Fielding
To Richardson - that name called up in any survey of Fielding - belongs credit for the founding of a new school: the novel of char acter and manners, which is the prototype of modern fiction. In his own words, he wished to turn the minds of young persons into a course of reading different from the pomp and parade of romance writing. Above all things, he desired to combat the unhealthful ten deney of foreign fiction and ground his plots sternly upon moral conduct. In Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded, his heroine is made to um dergo severe temptation and withstand many assaults upon her chastity; and finally to re claim her libertine lover through the very force of her steadfastness. In Clarissa Harlowe, the heroine is depicted as falling a prey to circumstance, but still displaying the dignity of a resistant virtue.
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