Pamela ; or, Virtue Rewarded

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Pamela ; or, Virtue Rewarded / Samuel Richardson ; Edited with Explanatory Notes by Thomas Keymer and Alice Wakely ; With an Introduction by Thomas Keymer. - Wydanie 2. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008. - XLV, 546 stron ; 20 cm.

(Oxford World's Classics - Oxford University Press)

Autor

Richardson, Samuel (1830-1894). Autor Keymer, Thomas. Wstęp Wakely, Alice. Redakcja

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Literatura angielska

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One of the most spectacular successes of the flourishing literary marketplace of eighteenth-century London, Pamela also marked a defining moment in the emergence of the modern novel. In the words of one contemporary, it divided the world "into two different Parties, Pamelists and Anti-pamelists," even eclipsing the sensational factional politics of the day. Preached for its morality, and denounced as pornography in disguise, it vividly describes a young servant's long resistance to the attempts of her predatory master to seduce her. Written in the voice of its low-born heroine, Pamela is not only a work of pioneering psychological complexity, but also a compelling and provocative study of power and its abuse. Based on the original text of 1740, from which Richardson later retreated in a series of defensive revisions, this edition makes available the version of Pamela that aroused such widespread controversy on its first appearance.

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Tyt. okł.: Pamela

Uwaga dotycząca bibliografii

Bibliography na stronach XXXVIII-XLII.