1st Edition
The Pamela Controversy Vol 1 Criticisms and Adaptations of Samuel Richardson's Pamela, 1740-1750
332 Pages
by
Routledge
This volume documents the literary controversy and debate over Samuel Richardson's novel, "Pamela", published in 1741. It brings together and reprints key sources within the debate, including artists such as Francis Hayman, Hubert Gravelot, Joseph Highmore and Philip Mercer.
VOLUME 1 Richardson's apparatus and Fielding's Shamela Verse responses; Note on copy-texts; General introduction; Introduction to volume 1 RICHARDSON'S APPARATUS AND FIELDING'S SHAMELA; Preface, Introduction, and Conclusion to Pamela, second edition (1741) Henry Fielding, Shamela (1741) Samuel Richardson, Preface and Conclusion to Pamela, volumes III and IV (1741) Samuel Richardson, Preliminary matter to Pamela, octavo edition (1742) VERSE RESPONSES Anon, 'Advice to Booksellers (after reading Pamela)' (1741) Poems from the London Magazine Josiah Relph, 'Wrote after Reading Pamela' (1747) Belinda, 'To the Author of Pamela' (1745) George Bennet, extract from Pamela Versified (1741) Anon, 'Pamela the Second' (1742) J-W-, Pamela: or, The Fair Impostor (1743)
Biography
Tom Keymer, Peter Sabor, John Mullan
