Anti-Pamela, or, Feign'd innocence detected
By: Eliza Haywood ; and An apology for the life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews / Henry Fielding ; edited by Catherine Ingrassia
Contributors: Ingrassia, Catherine; Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754.
Series: Broadview literary texts
Publisher: Broadview Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Peterborough, Ont; Orchard Park, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
Subjects: Richardson, Samuel, -- 1689-1761 -- Parodies, imitations, etc; Richardson, Samuel, -- 1689-1761.; Richardson, Samuel, -- 1689-1761 -- Parodies; Richardson, Samuel, -- 1689-1761.
Genres: Parodies, imitations, etc; Parodies
Other titles: Feign'd innocence detected; Anti-Pamela and Shamela
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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 334-336)