从《帕梅拉》看塞缪尔·理查逊的女性观-英语语言文学专业论文.docxVIP

Abstract Samuel Richardson is a famous English novelist in the 18th century and he is also a master of epistolary novel in Europe. His three great epistolary novels are Pamela (1740-41), Clarissa (1748), Grandison (1754), which play an important role in the history of English novel. Richardson cares about the issues of marriage and moral admonition and most of his works always take the maid or middle-class female as protagonist. Richardson is good at describing emotional and psychological characters, and thereby creating a model of Britain’s family novel. Pamela is one of his great works, known as the first modern novel in English literary history. There are some essays that analyze Richardson’s novel with kind of critical theories. The critics’ study on Richardson’s works mainly develops from the perspectives of epistolary fiction artistry, narrative skill, psychological analysis, feminism, historical significance and religious attitudes. However, the research of Richardson’s view on female in Pamela is not systematic. Resorting to the ex-achievement about his novels, this thesis takes Richardson’s novel Pamela as analyzing text to reexamine his female image and excavate his vision of women on the condition of interpreting the profound meaning of his works objectively so as to catch on Richardson’s points of view on women. The thesis consists of three chapters. The first chapter centers on Pamela’s manipulative independence in the male-dominated society through the analysis of Pamela’s female image. Although Richardson is a male writer who cares about the fate of the female, he endows Pamela a falsified female voice. Pamela is represented as a manipulatedly independent woman. The second chapter attaches great importance to Pamela’s submission to the male-dominated society. Pamela is a woman who lacks female voice after marriage. She transfers into an ideal woman. From the image of Pamela, Richardson’s view on female---woman should identify with the male culture ca