'Eighteenth century literature is united in its common concern with the meaning of virtue in a changing world.' Statements relevance to Pope's 'The Rape of the Lock' and Richardson's 'Pamela'

Pope's The Rape of the Lock and Richardson's Pamela are apt for comparison in that they both deal with exposing the upper class for having a lack of virtue. Pope's parody is to show up his social peers by bringing to light their vanity and lack of concern for morals. Pamela, on the other hand was originally written to educate the lower classes, which obviously impacts on its handling of virtue. On a more subtle …

…www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=2983> BOOKS Demaria, Robert (ed.), 2005, British Literature 1640-1789 An Anthology, Second Edition, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Richardson, Samuel, Intro. By Weekes Kinkead, Pamela In Two Volumes, Volume Two, 1966, Everyman's Library, London: Dent Dutton Richardson, Samuel, Sabor, Peter (ed.), 1980, Pamela; Or Virtue Rewarded, St. Ives: Penguin Skinner, John, 2001, An Introduction to Eighteenth Century Fiction, Raising the Novel, Hampshire: Palgrave OTHER Lecture and seminar slides\notes.