ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded evolved from a collection of model letters into a bestselling novel. Margaret Doody introduces Samuel Richardson’s work and its exploration of gender, class, sexual harassment and marriage. Samuel Richardson, a printer for much of his life, had not intended to be a novelist.

Detailed explanation-2: -Samuel Richardson’s Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded, first published in 1740, is widely regarded as the first English novel. It was certainly the first bestseller, hyped, saluted, and scorned in equal measure.

Detailed explanation-3: -Legacy. Sir Walter Scott called Henry Fielding the “father of the English novel, ” and the phrase still indicates Fielding’s place in the history of literature.

Detailed explanation-4: -Pamela, in full Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded, novel in epistolary style by Samuel Richardson, published in 1740 and based on a story about a servant and the man who, failing to seduce her, marries her. Pamela Andrews is a 15-year-old servant.

Detailed explanation-5: -The first novel is usually credited to be Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe which was first published in 1719 (Lee). The novel is about a man, Crusoe, who spent 28 years on a deserted island and the adventures in which he encountered while on the island.