Title: 'Pamela' in the marketplace
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.
Subjects: English fiction, English literature, History, Marketing, Publishing, Literary studies: general, Literature - Classics / Criticism, Literary Criticism, British Isles, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, 18th century, Book industries and trade, England, Ireland, Literature, history and criticism, Richardson, samuel , 1689-1761, English literature--publishing, English fiction--marketing--history, English fiction--marketing--history--18th century, Pr3667 .k49 2005, 823.6
People: Samuel Richardson (1689-1761)
Time periods: 18th century