PAMELA
| Categoría | Clásica |
| ISBN | 9780199536498 |
| Peso | 0.65 |
| Autor | Richardson, Scott |
| Editorial | Oxford University Press |
| Tapa | Rústica |
| Idioma | Inglés |
| Año | 2008 |
| Ciudad | Oxford |
| Páginas | 554 |
| Autor: Richardson, Scott |
| Editorial: Oxford University Press |
| Tapa: Rústica |
| Idioma: Inglés |
| Año: 2008 |
| Ciudad: Oxford |
| Páginas: 554 |
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, Pamela is not only a work of pioneering psychological complexity, but also a compelling and provocative study of power and its abuse.
Based on the original text of 1740, from which Richardson later retreated in a series of defensive revisions, this edition makes available the version of Pamela that aroused such widespread controversy on its first appearance.