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  Hello Learners, This blog includes presentation, thinking activity, material on “Pamela or Virtue Rewarded” by Samuel Richardson. Samuel Richardson’s Pamela (1740) is a famous example of an epistolary novel, or a novel composed of letters. Richardson was famous for this style of writing and used it in his other novels. Pamela differs from Richardson’s other novels in that the letters are mostly from the titular Pamela; whereas in his other novels, more points of view are included. The novel focuses on Pamela to hone in on her experience and state of mind. Click here to read more about this text. Here’s a brief presentation on “Pamela or Virtue Rewarded” discussed in the class. Go through the presentation and reading material to complete the thinking task and quiz. Pamela or The Virtue Rewarded from Department of English MKBU Thinking Activity:- 1.) If Pamela was in the contemporary time, will the story take any changes? Prepare a blog on the thinking activity and...

  Hello Learners, This blog includes presentation, thinking activity, material and quiz on “A Tale of a Tub” by Johnathan Swift. Jonathan Swift's Tale of the Tub is a brilliant failure. It is a prose satire intended as a defense of the Anglican church, but it was widely interpreted by contemporary readers as an attack on all religion. At the time of writing it, Swift was a junior Anglican clergyman hoping for substantial preferment in the Church. The appearance of the Tale, and its assumed message, was a serious obstacle to his promotion. One of the things that makes the Tale difficult to interpret for that the work attacks multiple things of things at the same time: it's an allegory about religious differences; it's a satire on pedantry and false scholarship; it's a parody of the contemporary book trade; it has attached to it two further treatises, the 'Battle of the Books', and the 'Mechanical Operation of the Spirit'. This essay will examine not...