Realism | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 29 pages of analysis & critique of Realism.

Realism | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 29 pages of analysis & critique of Realism.
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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 to its author. His linking Pamela to the sermon would have won Richardson's gratitude, by...

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