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Article: Common Ground: Eighteenth-Century English Satiric Fiction and the Poor.(Review)
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- Utopian Studies
- Article date:
- March 22, 1999
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Judith Frank. Common Ground: Eighteenth-Century English Satiric Fiction and the Poor. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1997. $45.00.
IN COMMON GROUND, Judith Frank explores the relationship between the gentle class and the poor in the eighteenth century, and how that rapport was inscribed in novels of the period. Eighteenth-century satiric novels are shaped both in a thematic and structural sense by the contact between the gentry and the poor. Previous to this important study, the poor have usually been seen as an allegory for the emergent middle class, most notably Samuel Richardson's Pamela, the story of a servant girl whose conspicuous virtue wins out against the ...