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Rockabye Lady: Pregnancy as Punishment in Popular Culture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2009

Deborah D. Rogers
Affiliation:
Deborah D. Rogers is Associate Professor of English, University of Maine, Orono, Manie 04469-0122, U.S.A.

Abstract

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Notes and Comment
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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1 Pamela's position as the first English novel has recently been challenged, especially by feminist critics, who argue for a female tradition predating Richardson. Even if Pamela is not the first novel, it is still a seminal text.

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3 Ibid., 3, 281.

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