Pamela
of Samuel Richardson, Thomas Keymer (Editor), Alice Wakely (Editor)
Description
One of the most spectacular successes of the flourishing literary marketplace of eighteenth-century London, Pamela also marked a defining moment in the emergence of the modern novel. In the words of one contemporary, it divided the world "into two different Parties, Pamelists and Anti-pamelists," even eclipsing the sensational factional politics of the day. Preached for its morality, and denounced as pornography in disguise, it vividly describes a young servant's long resistance to the attempts of her predatory master to seduce her. Written in the voice of its low-born heroine, Pamela is not only a work of pioneering psychological complexity, but also a compelling and provocative study of power and its abuse. Based on the original text of 1740, from which Richardson later retreated in a series of defensive revisions, this edition makes available the version of Pamela that aroused such widespread controversy on its first appearance.
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 592 pages
- Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
- Publication Date July 12th 2001
- First Publication 1740
- Language English
- ISBN 9780192829603
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['England']
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