'Pamela' in the marketplace
Subtitle: literary controversy and print culture in eighteenth-century Britain and Ireland
By: Thomas Keymer and Peter Sabor
Contributors: Sabor, Peter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
Subjects: Richardson, Samuel, -- 1689-1761; English literature -- Publishing; English fiction -- Marketing -- History -- 18th century
Description: "Samuel Richardson's Pamela (1740) is often regarded as the first true novel in English and a landmark in literary history. The bestselling novel of its time, it provoked a swarm of responses: panegyrics and critiques, parodies and burlesques, piracies and sequels, comedies and operas. The controversy it inspired has become a standard point of reference in studies of the rise of the novel, the history of the book and the emergence of consumer culture. In the first book-length study of the Pamela controversy since 1960, Thomas Keymer and Peter Sabor offer a fresh and definitive account of the novel's enormous cultural impact."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index