 ... a new species of writing, that might possibly turn young people into a course of reading different from the pomp and parade of romance-writing, and dismissing the improbable and marvellous, with which novels generally abound, might tend to promote...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 1521926Full view - About this book
 | John J. Richetti - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 304 pages
...dtsreputable and extravagant popular kind, Disdaining what he always referred to in his correspondence as "the pomp and parade of romance-writing, and dismissing...and marvellous, with which novels generally abound," Richardson sought in Pamela to "introduce a new species of writing."1- But his first novel, as many... | |
 | Eliza Haywood, Henry Fielding - Fiction - 2004 - 340 pages
..."if written in an easy and natural manner ... might possibly introduce a new species of writing, that might possibly turn young people into a course of...abound, might tend to promote the cause of religion and virtue."1 Richardson carefully distinguishes his work from "romance writing" and the "novel" with their... | |
 | Fred Botting, Dale Townshend - Gothic revival (Literature) - 2004 - 400 pages
...deleterious effects of romances: stories like Pamela 'if written in an easy and natural manner [ . . . ] might possibly turn young people into a course of...romance-writing, and dismissing the improbable and the marvellous, with which novels generally abound, might tend to promote the cause of religion and... | |
 | Thomas Keymer, Tom Keymer, Peter Sabor - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 324 pages
...publication of Pamela, Richardson expressed his wish that the book 'introduce a new species of writing, that might possibly turn young people into a course of...tend to promote the cause of religion and virtue'.' While refraining from naming any particular authors in his disparaging remarks on romances, Richardson... | |
 | Temma F. Berg - Literary Collections - 2006 - 320 pages
...natural manner, suitably to the simplicity of it, might possibly introduce a new species of writing, that might possibly turn young people into a course of...romance-writing, and dismissing the improbable and marvelous, with which novels generally abound, might tend to promote the cause of religion and virtue.... | |
 | 156 pages
...written in an easy, natural manner, it might possibly introduce a new species of writing, that might turn young people into a course of reading different...tend to promote the cause of religion and virtue". The reaction against the heroic romances was immensely successful; Pope said that the novel was likely... | |
 | Victor Francis Calverton - English literature - 1926 - 376 pages
...the ethical purpose of Pamela, declared that the novel might "introduce a new species of writing that might possibly turn young people into a course of reading different from the pomp and parade of romance writing, and promote the cause of religion and virtue." In his Preface to Clarissa Harlowe... | |
 | James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast - Periodicals - 1880 - 814 pages
...natural manner suitable to the simplicity of it, might possibly introduce a new species of writing that might possibly turn young people into a course of reading different from the pomp and parade of romance writing, and, dismissing the impossible and marvellous with which novels generally abound,... | |
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