The English Realist Novel | Clinton Bond (essay date 1994)
Clinton Bond (essay date 1994)
SOURCE: "Representing Reality: Strategies of Realism in the Early English Novel," in Eighteenth Century Fiction, Vol. 6, No. 2, January, 1994, pp. 121-40.
[In the following excerpt, Bond analyzes realist techniques in the early novel, especially the work of Richardson.]
Some's fiction and some's not, and you can't be sure I wanted that feeling of when you're lying, people think you're telling the truth.1
Ken Kesey
Alexander Pope read Samuel Richardson's Pamela "with great Approbation and Pleasure," and, according to Dr George Cheyne, commented that "it will do more good than a great many of the new Sermons."2 However we read this comment, and I believe there are several layers of irony, Pope enjoyed the book well enough to make sure his appreciation and his understanding of it as a work of practical morality were forwarded...
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