Anti-Pamela and Shamela

Anti-Pamela and Shamela
Author: Eliza Haywood
Publisher: Broadview Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2004-01-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1770480714

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.

An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews

An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews
Author: Henry Fielding
Publisher:
Total Pages: 106
Release: 1926
Genre:
ISBN:

A burlesque of Richardson's "Pamela", which was generally ascribed to Fielding at the time of its appearance and held by most authorities to be by him.--Cf. W.L. Cross' "The history of Henry Fielding", v. 1, p. 23, 303-308: Notes & queries, 12th ser. v. 1, p. 24-26.

Cruelty and Laughter

Cruelty and Laughter
Author: Simon Dickie
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2011-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 0226146189

A rollicking review of popular culture in 18th century Britain this text turns away from sentimental and polite literature to focus instead on the jestbooks, farces, comic periodicals variety shows and minor comic novels that portray a society in which no subject was taboo and political correctness unimagined.

Licensing Entertainment

Licensing Entertainment
Author: William B. Warner
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 343
Release: 1998-09-10
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0520212967

"This is an exciting and wholly original book. It is devilishly intelligent, formidable in its deployment of history and theory."—John Richetti, author of Popular Fiction before Richardson

Dress, Distress and Desire

Dress, Distress and Desire
Author: J. Batchelor
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2005-05-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230508200

Dress, Distress and Desire explores representations of sartorial experience in eighteenth-century literature. Batchelor's study brings together for the first time canonical and non-canonical texts including novels, conduct books and women's magazines to investigate the pressures that the growth of the fashion market placed on conceptions of female virtue and propriety. It shows how dress dispelled the sentimental myth that the body acted as a moral index and enabled the women reader to resist some of sentimental literature's more prescriptive advice.

The Cry

The Cry
Author: Sarah Fielding
Publisher:
Total Pages: 316
Release: 1754
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ISBN: