Samuel Richardson's Pamela (1740) is often regarded as the first
true novel in English and a landmark in literary history. The
best-selling novel of its time, it provoked a swarm of responses:
panegyrics and critiques, parodies and burlesques, piracies and
sequels, comedies and operas. The controversy it inspired has
become a standard point of reference in studies of the rise of the
novel, the history of the book and the emergence of consumer
culture. In the first book-length study of the Pamela controversy
since 1960, Thomas Keymer and Peter Sabor offer a definitive
account of the novel's enormous cultural impact. Above all, they
read the controversy as a market phenomenon, in which the writers
and publishers involved were competing not only in struggles of
interpretation and meaning but also in the larger and more pressing
enterprise of selling print.
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