Pamela, or, Virtue rewarded
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Pamela, or, Virtue rewarded
(The Cambridge edition of the works and correspondence of Samuel Richardson / general editors, Thomas Keymer, Peter Sabor, . The works ; 2)
Cambridge University Press, 2011
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The works of Samuel Richardson
The Cambridge edition of the works of Samuel Richardson
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Chronology: p. xix-xxvii
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded is perhaps the most influential novel published in Britain in the eighteenth century. On its first publication in 1740, it became an immediate bestseller. Its epistolary structure, tight plotting and didactic message were praised, imitated, but also criticised and satirised. This new critical edition of Samuel Richardson's first novel features an authoritative text based on the first edition, general and textual introductions, extensive explanatory notes and textual apparatus. Appendices provide bibliographical descriptions of all lifetime editions as well as the editions of 1801 and 1810, Richardson's introduction to the second edition (fully annotated), and the illustrations and Richardson's index from the octavo edition. The publication of this volume heralds the first full scholarly edition of Richardson's complete works, a long-awaited event in eighteenth-century studies.
Table of Contents
- General editors' preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- General introduction
- Textual introduction
- Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded
- Explanatory notes
- Appendices: I. List of emendations
- II. Word-division
- III. List of editions
- IV. Introduction to the second edition of Pamela (1741)
- V. Contents from the octavo edition (1742)
- VI. Illustrations from the octavo edition (1742)
- Index.
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