"I cannot be patient, I cannot be passive, when my virtue is in danger." Fifteen-year-old Pamela Andrews, alone and unprotected, is relentlessly pursued by her dead mistress's son. Although she is attracted to young Mr B., she holds out against his demands and threats of abduction and rape, determined to defend her virginity and abide by her own moral standards. Psychologically acute in its investigations of sex, freedom and power, Richardson's first novel caused a sensation when it was first published, with its depiction of a servant heroine who dares to assert herself. Richly...
"I cannot be patient, I cannot be passive, when my virtue is in danger." Fifteen-year-old Pamela Andrews, alone and unprotected, is relentl...
"Oh thou savage-hearted monster What work hast thou made in one guilty hour, for a whole age of repentance " Pressured by her unscrupulous family to marry a wealthy man she detests, the young Clarissa Harlowe is tricked into fleeing with the witty and debonair Robert Lovelace and places herself under his protection. Lovelace, however, proves himself to be an untrustworthy rake whose vague promises of marriage are accompanied by unwelcome and increasingly brutal sexual advances. And yet, Clarissa finds his charm alluring, her scrupulous sense of virtue tinged with unconfessed...
"Oh thou savage-hearted monster What work hast thou made in one guilty hour, for a whole age of repentance " Pressured by her unscrupulous...
Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), a prominent London printer, is considered by many the father of the English novel, andPamela the first modern novel. Following its hugely successful publication in 1740, it went on to become one of the most influential books in literary history, setting the course for the novel for the next century and beyond. Pamela reflects changing social roles in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, as a rising middle class offered women more choices and as traditional master-servant relationships underwent change.
Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), a prominent London printer, is considered by many the father of the English novel, andPamela the first modern ...
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pomona Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pomona Press ...
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pomona Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pomona Press ...
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pomona Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pomona Press ...
Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded, the sub-title gives a clue to the plot of the first and most successful of Richardson's novels. It sold four editions in six months, and is the first English novel to be written by a tradesman (the author was a printer) about a middle-class heroine for a middle-class public.
Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded, the sub-title gives a clue to the plot of the first and most successful of Richardson's novels. It sold four editions in s...
Samuel Richardson was an 18th century British novelist. He is most noted for developing the epistolary form of writing in which letters are used throughout the work. His most famous works are Clarissa and Pamela. In The History of Sir Charles Grandison Richardson provides the reader with a generous main character who is torn between the love of Harriet and Clementina. When Clementina refuses to marry him because he is not Catholic his dilemma is solved.
Samuel Richardson was an 18th century British novelist. He is most noted for developing the epistolary form of writing in which letters are used throu...
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,...
One of the most spectacular successes of the flourishing literary marketplace of eighteenth-century London, Pamela also marked a defining mom...
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pomona Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pomona Press ...
