2009
DOI: 10.1353/ecf.0.0127
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“Booby’s fruitless operations”: The Crisis of Male Authority in Richardson’s Pamela

Abstract: Critics have read Mr B.’s failure to rape Pamela either as evidence of his sexual impotence and Richardson’s authorial incompetence or as a testament to the power of Pamela’s heroically resistant voice. In contrast, I argue that Mr B.’s inability to acquit himself as a rake is crucially linked to his desire to silence Pamela’s narrative. While he fails to penetrate her body, he ultimately succeeds at insinuating a competing narrative within her epistolary text—a narrative that highlights his own discursive pow… Show more

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