'Pamela' in the Marketplace - Literary Controversy and Print Culture in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland (Hardcover)

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 fresh and 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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2005
First published:	2005
Authors:	Thomas Keymer (Chancellor Jackman Professor of English) • Peter Sabor
Dimensions:	235 x 160 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	306
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-81337-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Promotions
LSN:	0-521-81337-9
Barcode:	9780521813372

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