Question
This character’s elaborate schemes include purchasing books to make inhabitants of a brothel seem well-read and renting all the rooms of an inn and filling them with impostors hired to impersonate his relatives. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this archetypical rake whose drugging and imprisoning of a woman leads her to write ten “Mad Papers,” the last of which includes sideways and diagonal text.
ANSWER: Sir Richard Lovelace [prompt on Richard]
[10e] Lovelace is the villain of this approximately 1,500-page epistolary novel by Samuel Richardson, which Harold Bloom dubiously claimed to reread every year.
ANSWER: Clarissa [or Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life. And Particularly Shewing, the Distresses that May Attend the Misconduct Both of Parents and Children, In Relation to Marriage]
[10h] Lovelace carries Clarissa to bed after a maid accidentally performs this action while reading Pandosto. Clarissa insists that Lovelace must have performed this action, as he takes the opportunity to grope her. A description is acceptable.
ANSWER: almost starting a fire [accept equivalents; accept answers indicating that she sets some curtains on fire or equivalents; accept answers indicating that she knocks over a candle or lamp or equivalents]
<Henry Atkins, British Literature>
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