Anti-Pamela and Shamela (Broadview Literary Texts)

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.