Key Terms
Full title
Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded Published: 1740 Author: Samuel Richardson
Plot
Pamela Andrews, a young servant girl employed by the B_____ family, resists Mr. B_____'s repeated sexual advances and is
Epistolary novel
A novel structured as a series of letters between characters.
Published by
Henry Fielding Relationship to Pamela: Begins as a parody; becomes a fully realized satiric novel that goes far beyond p
Picaresque
A literary form featuring a picaro (a character with no fixed class position) who moves through different social setting
Example
Lazarillo da Tormes
Don Quixote
An old man who has read so many knightly romances that he believes himself a knight. He travels with Sancho Panza, encou
BURLESQUE
The exhibition of what is monstrous and unnatural. Example: the hopelessly stupid shepherds in Sidney's Arcadia.
COMIC
Strictly imitating nature. "Life every where furnishes an accurate Observer with the Ridiculous."
METAFICTION
A technique in which the narrator calls the reader's attention to the fact that the work is fiction.
Setup
Adams, Joseph, and Fanny are stranded at an inn without money. Adams assumes the local clergyman will lend him money — b
Adams argues
"a virtuous and good Turk, or Heathen, are more acceptable in the sight of their Creator, than a vicious and wicked Chri
Core trait
"as entirely ignorant of the Ways of this World, as an Infant just entered into it could possibly be." (Book I, Chapter
Parson Trulliber
Short, fat, crude; a parson on Sundays only; a hog farmer the rest of the week. He initially thinks Adams has come to bu
Joseph
"O you have not spoken one Word of Comfort to me yet." Adams is genuinely confused.