Title: Anti-Pamela, or, Feign'd innocence detected
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.
Subjects: Parodies, Parodies, imitations, etc, Parodies, imitations, Richardson, samuel, 1689-1761, English fiction & prose literature - 16th-17th century - literary criticism
People: Samuel Richardson (1689-1761)