'Pamela' in the Marketplace: Literary Controversy and Print Culture in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland

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Cambridge University Press, Dec 15, 2005 - Literary Criticism - 295 pages
Samuel Richardson's Pamela (1740) is often regarded as the first true novel in English and a landmark in literary history. As the best selling 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 an original definitive account of the novel's enormous cultural impact.

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Contents

Introduction
1
publication promotion profits
18
Literary property and the trade in continuations
50
Counterfictions and novel production
83
Domestic servitude and the licensed stage
133
Pamela illustrations and the visual culture of
161
Commercial morality colonial nationalism
177
Afterword
206
Appendix A chronology of publications performances
216
Notes
225
Select bibliography
271
Index
285
Index
288
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Peter Sabor is Director of the Burney Centre and Canada Research Chair in Eighteenth-Century Studies at McGill University, Montreal.

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