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Anti-Pamela and Shamela
Anti-Pamela and Shamela | Henry Fielding, Eliza Haywood
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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.
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Anti-Pamela and Shamela | Henry Fielding, Eliza Haywood
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I wanted to dig out something a little different for a #favoriteschoolread so here's one from my grad school days. I've always enjoyed a good satire, and this is a classic two in one combo poking fun at Richardson's Pamela, a book that annoyed me to no end!

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