The Teaching of English Literature in Secondary Schools
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129 and adventure, but not based on crime or the marvellous. Of Richardson we would select Pamela or Sir Charles Grandison. Clarissa cannot be dealt with so as to make it suitable for school use without destroying it. Whatever novel of Richardson or Fielding is selected should be read out of class ; and it need not be said that Richardson will need abbreviating and Fielding expurgation (suitable editions ai e published by Routledge) . The teacher should point out how Richardson's previous exper...i- ence led him to choose a narrative in the form of letters, and should indicate the nature of the three stories (softening Clarissa, of course). He will draw attention to the excellence of Richardson's insight into character at any rate female charac- ter in the making, and his inartistic prolongation of the story after the denouement ; and to his theatrical men the ridiculous Mr. B. ; Lovelace, the melodramatic villain, always calling the atten- tion of his friends to his villainy ; Belfort, the re- formed rake, who sends lectures and sermons to Lovelace by post, but does not take steps to pro- cure Clarissa's release ; Sir Charles Grandison, the prig.
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