Abstract
ly pleasing. Yet by blaming herself for marrying an even hyperbolically unreconstructed tyrant, Betsy seems to have let slip from her thoughts the explanation for wifely gloom contained in her text's double reference to Astell and Defoe. Does this genre of thoughtlessness contribute to the happy punitive ending of Betsy's plot? In the following section, I reassess a plot whose fatality I have followed Haywood in stressing. For, as it turns out, not This content downloaded from 207.46.13.131 on Sun, 16 Oct 2016 05:20:23 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms
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