Anti-Pamela and ShamelaPublished 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. |
Contents
Acknowledgments | 6 |
A Brief Chronology | 44 |
A Note on British Money | 50 |
An Apology for the Life of Mrs Shamela Andrews | 229 |
Womens Work | 277 |
Sexuality | 297 |
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Marcus Tullius Cicero 1741 | 315 |
Education and Conduct Books | 323 |
Map of London in AntiPamela and Shamela | 333 |