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Penitents Or Prostitutes ?: the Narratives of Fallen Women in Defoe,Richardson, and Fielding Loyola University Chicago Loyola eCommons Dissertations Theses and Dissertations 1998 Penitents Or Prostitutes ?: The Narratives of Fallen Women in Defoe,Richardson, and Fielding Beth Martin Birky Loyola University Chicago Follow this and additional works at: https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss Part of the English Language and Literature Commons Recommended Citation Birky, Beth Martin, "Penitents Or Prostitutes ?: The Narratives of Fallen Women in Defoe,Richardson, and Fielding" (1998). Dissertations. 3724. https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss/3724 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses and Dissertations at Loyola eCommons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Loyola eCommons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. Copyright © 1998 Beth Martin Birky LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO PENITENTS OR PROSTITUTES?: THE NARRATIVES OF FALLEN WOMEN IN DEFOE, RICHARDSON, AND FIELDING A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL IN CANDIDACY FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH BY BETH MARTIN BIRKY CHICAGO, ILLINOIS JANUARY 1998 Copyright by Beth Martin Birky, 1998 All rights reserved. To David In narratives where historical veracity has no place, I cannot discover why there should not be exhibited the most perfect idea of virtue; of virtue not angelical, nor above probability, for what we cannot credit we shall never imitate, but the highest and purest that humanity can reach, which, exercised in such trials as the various revolutions of things shall bring upon it, may, by conquering some calamities, and enduring others, teach us what we may hope, and what we can perform. Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, No. 4 Re-vision-the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction-is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival. We need to know the writing of the past, and know it differently than we have ever known it; Adrienne Rich, "When We Dead Awaken" TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT ........................................................... vi CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION ........................................ 1 2. FUNCTIONS OF THE FALLEN WOMAN IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FICTION: MIDDLE-CLASS MYTHS OF MONEY AND MORALITY .................... 13 3. DEFOE'S "AMOROUS CHAIN OF STORY": THE FALLEN WOMAN'S NARRATIVE IN MOLL FLANDERS AND ROXANA .......................... 45 4. AN UNCOMMON SEDUCTION: RICHARDSON'S CLARISSA AND THE FALLEN WOMAN'S NARRATIVE ..... 101 5. "STRUGGLING MANFULLY WITH DISTRESS": MORAL AGENCY AND FALLEN WOMEN'S NARRATIVES IN HENRY FIELDING'S AMELIA ......................... 152 6. CONCLUSION ........................................ 204 WORKS CITED ...................................................... 212 VITA ............................................................... 219 v ABSTRACT This dissertation describes a narrative paradigm found in Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders and Roxana, Samuel Richardson's Clarissa, and Henry Fielding's Amelia. In what I call the fallen woman's narrative, the fallen woman tells the story of her fall to a sympathetic audience. My primary concern is how each author utilizes the conventions of the fallen woman's narrative for his own novelistic purpose. I also explore the relationship between this paradigm and eighteenth-century English middle-class attitudes toward women, money, and morality. In the introduction, I describe the fallen woman's narrative, which is distinct from other literary representations of fallen women in its unique insistence on narrativity: the first-person narrator and an immediate context for telling the tale to a specific audience. In chapter two I examine how literary representations of chastity and the fallen woman in literature reinforce and resist the material and moral concerns of the eighteenth-century middle class. In chapter three, I discuss how Defoe uses the fallen woman's narrative in the initial episodes of Moll Flanders and Roxana to characterize each woman as a sympathetic fallen woman before he complicates that assumption with his own complex portrayal of female sexuality and survival. This chapter also considers the relationship between these two novels and a later Defoe pamphlet, Some Considerations Upon Streetwalkers. In chapter four, I examine Anna Howe's request for Clarissa's fallen woman's narrative and her inability to complete that story. By allowing Clarissa's correspondence to prove her innocence, Richardson comments on the superior didactic function of the epistolary genre. In chapter five, I discuss Fielding's unique contrasting of VI two fallen women's narratives, one used to seduce a listener and the other used to warn of a similar seduction, to show that a woman's virtue, like all virtue, requires more than chastity and passive resistance. In the conclusion, I indicate evidence of other fallen women's narratives in Tobias Smollett's Peregrine Pickle and Oliver Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield and discuss possible models for and influences of this narrative paradigm in earlier and later fiction. vii CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION Young Moll Flanders is seduced by her master; Roxana is forced to become her landlord's mistress to pay the rent after her husband deserts her and her children; Clarissa is held captive and then raped by Lovelace; and Miss Mathews is promised marriage by a young soldier. These are just a few of the numerous seduction scenes in eighteenth­ century English novels, and, with each successful seduction, we find a fallen woman who has lost her virtue either before or outside of marriage. Although virtuous women like Richardson's Pamela are frequently considered the dominant image of women in eighteenth-century novels, fallen women can be found in many contexts in the eighteenth-century: Restoration drama, early fiction by women like Eliza Haywood, scandalous memoirs or "Apologies," pamphlets, periodicals, and even William Hogarth's famous The Harlot's Progress. Whether in the role of courtesans, prostitutes, destitute young women, or violated chamber maids, and whether characterized as eager, horrified, desperate, or indulgent, fallen women play a significant role in many eighteenth-century novels. 1 Although fallen women are numerous in 1 See Ian Bell, Literature and Crime in Augustan England, for reference to an astonishing number of diverse literary and nonliterary sources which refer to prostitutes or fallen women. He notes James Boswell's journal; The Whore's Rhetorick Calculated to the Meridian ofLondon and Conformed to the Rules ofArt in Two Dialogues (1683); accounts of legal treatment of sexually deviant women in works such as The Life and Errors ofJohn Dunton, Late Citizen ofLondon (1705); proposals for reform (Jonas Hanway's Plan For Establishing a Charity House [1758], Saunders Welch); dramas such as The Beggar's Opera; poetry such as Swift's "A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed" (1734); periodical essays such as Steele's Spectator papers on prostitution#274 and 2 Victorian literature and the term fallen woman itself is more current to that period, references to these unchaste or sexually compromised women appear in many critical studies about women in eighteenth-century literature, whether the critic is examining Clarissa and her deification in death or Fanny Hill and her veneration in the male fantasy world of pornography. Critics observe numerous and repeated narrative embodiments of the notion of a fallen woman, in short vignettes and full-length novels, in tragic death and comic relief. 2 While many excellent studies mention the sexual woman in eighteenth-century literature, particularly in the context of crime or domestic values, few have done a comprehensive analysis of fallen women and none have considered, in particular, the first-person narratives by fallen women found in eighteenth-century fiction. 3 In what I 276 (1712) and Samuel Johnson's Rambler (1751); pamphlets such as Defoe's Essay Upon Projects (1697) and Some Considerations Upon Streetwalkers (1726), as well as an anonymous pamphlet Satan's Harvest Home: Or, The Present State of Whorecraft, Adultery, Fornication, Procuring, Pimping, Sodomy, etc (1749), Defoe's later argument in Augusta Triumphans (1728) written under the pseudonym Andrew Moreton; Mandeville's The Fable ofthe Bees [and The Making ofPublic Stews]; and William Hogarth's The Harlot's Progress (1731); etc. 2 Bell specifically notes fiction by men (Nicholas Rowe's The Fair Penitent [1703]) as well as more familiar novels by Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Goldsmith, Smollett) and women (Mary de la Riviere Manley and Eliza Haywood). Carol Houlihan Flynn also offers a helpful description of the historical context of fallen women as evident in both documents ("Letters, memoirs, diaries, court records of rape trials, whores' biographies") and fiction (novels and plays) of the time in Samuel Richardson. She notes Richardson's response to the 1748 An Apology for the Conduct ofMrs. Teresia Constantia Phillips by Mrs. Muilman, and comments in more detail on two other stories of fallen women: The Accomplished Fine Rake (1727) and Memoirs ofa Magdalen (1767). Margaret Ann Doody, in A Natural Passion, provides a thorough description of several sources of Richardson's fiction that she finds in early women's fiction. 3 See Tony Tanner, Adultery in the Novel (1979); Susan Staves, "British Seduced
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