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Fielding & Richardson/Critics of British Society

An 8 page essay. Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding were British contemporaries writing in the early eighteenth century. Richardson's Pamela (1740) and Fielding's Tom Jones (1729) each address what these authors perceived to be problems within the British social structure. In Tom Jones, Fielding takes a firm stand against the practice of arranged marriages and dramatizes the negative consequences of such arranged liaisons. In Pamela, Richardson portrays the injustice of upper class men who feel free to be sexual predators in regards to the servant class. In both novels, the social criticism of the authors is directed toward upper class British behavior and the didactic moral of each tale implies that moral reform is needed. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

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