Anti-Pamela and Shamela

by Eliza Haywood and Henry Fielding

Catherine Ingrassia (Editor)

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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.

  • ISBN13 9781551113838
  • Publish Date 30 January 2004
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 11 March 2021
  • Publish Country CA
  • Imprint Broadview Press Ltd
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 336
  • Language English