EAN: 9780199536498

PAMELA OR VIRTUE REWARDED - SAMUEL RICHARDSON K...

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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