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Domestic Misconduct in the Novels of Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding

By Jacqueline Elaine Lawson

Book information

Publisher
Edwin Mellen Pr
Year
1994
ISBN
0773499784, 9780773499782
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
36 MB (38014112 bytes)
Pages
200\96
Time added
2016-11-29 19:54:21
Criticism & Theory;History & Criticism;Literature

Description

For the novelist of the 18th century, the narrative pre-occupation with domestic life was expressed through the image of the ill-governed family. The complications arising from courtship, marriage, sexual relationships, adolescence and domestic strife provided the writers of that era with the perfect vehicle for inculcating moral precepts governing family conduct; which explains, in part, the overly didactic nature of the novel in which readers are exhorted to correct improprieties in their own households.

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