Samuel Richardsons Epistolary Technique and His Didactic Purpose in Pamela

摘要：

　　In his first novel,Pamela,or,Virtue Rewarded,Samuel Richardson successfully achieved his didactic purpose through the epistolary writing style,avoiding the direct confrontation with his readers.The text narrated by the letter writer,Pamela,the beautiful maid,together with her inner world,is exposed to the readers.In this way,Richardson conveyed the then moral standard to the young female readers.The girls learned through Pamelas exemplary firmness in keeping her virginity.However,what is ironic is that they also learned to keep their virtue to trade for the final reward,a sincerely proposed marriage from the rich man,which forms the dialectic of this moral-teaching novel.

关键词： Samuel Richardson epistolary technique didactic purpose reward

作者: Qu Cai-e

作者单位: School of Foreign Languages,Yanan University,Yanan 716000,China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2015东北亚语言学文学和教学国际论坛(2015NALLTS)

会议地点: 吉林延边

会议语种:英文

页码: 82-87

在线出版日期: 2015-07-17（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）