Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Samuel Richardson) - Hardcover

Richardson, Samuel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521848954 ISBN 13: 9780521848954

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Synopsis

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.

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Book Description:

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. A long-awaited event in eighteenth-century studies, the publication of this volume heralds the first full scholarly edition of Richardson's compete works.

About the Author:

Albert J. Rivero is Professor of English at Marquette University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0521848954
• ISBN 13: 9780521848954
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 664
• Editor: Rivero Albert J.