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Anti-Pamela and Shamela

By Catherine Ingrassia , Eliza Haywood , Henry Fielding

Book information

Publisher
Broadview Press
Year
2004
ISBN
1-55111-383-X, 9781551113838
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2249363 bytes)
Pages
336\336
Time added
2018-02-18 10:30:00

Description

Published together for the first time, Eliza Haywood’s Anti-Pamela and Henry Fielding’s An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews are the two most important responses to Samuel Richardson’s novel Pamela. Anti-Pamela comments on Richardson’s representations of work, virtue, and gender, while also questioning the generic expectations of the novel that Pamela establishes, and it provides a vivid portrayal of the material realities of life for a woman in eighteenth-century London. Fielding’s Shamela punctures both the figure Richardson established for himself as an author and Pamela’s preoccupation with virtue. This Broadview edition also includes a rich selection of historical materials, including writings from the period on sexuality, women’s work, Pamela and the print trade, and education and conduct.

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