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- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
25 September 2003
Summary
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SHAMELA is a brilliant parody of Samuel Richardson’s PAMELA, in which a virtuous servant girl long resists her master’s advances and is eventually ‘rewarded’ with marriage. Fielding’s far more spirited and sexually honest heroine, by contrast, merely uses coyness and mock modesty as techniques to catch a rich husband.
JOSEPH ANDREWS, Fielding’s first full-length novel, can also be seen as a response to Richardson, as the lascivious Lady Booby sets out…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140433869 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140433864 |
| Author: | Henry Fielding, Judith Hawley |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 25 September 2003 |
| Weight: | 322g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 26mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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“Hawley’s introduction is a model of what such a thing should be (for an undergraduate audience): full of information, but not too pushy. She manages to touch on a truly remarkable number of important bases in just a few pages—an impressive accomplishment. The notes are good, too. This is the best edition out there for college students.” — Douglas Patey, Sophia Smith Professor of English, Smith College
About The Author
Henry Fielding
Henry Fielding (1707 - 54) started his career as a playwright until his outspoken satirical plays so annoyed Walpole’s Government that a new Licensing Act was introduced to drive him from the stage. He turned to writing various ‘comic epics in prose’, including SHAMELA (1741), JOSEPH ANDREWS (1742) and TOM JONES (1749). A master innovator, he is credited with creating the first modern novels in English. Judith Hawley is a lecturer in English at Royal Holloway, University of London.
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