Pamela Controversy Vol 1

This volume documents the literary controversy and debate over Samuel Richardson's novel, "Pamela", published in 1741. It brings together and reprints key sources within the debate, including artists such as Francis Hayman, Hubert Gravelot, Joseph Highmore and Philip Mercer. VOLUME 1 Richardson's apparatus and Fielding's Shamela Verse responses; Note on copy-texts; General introduction; Introduction to volume 1 RICHARDSON'S APPARATUS AND FIELDING'S SHAMELA; Preface, Introduction, and Conclusion to Pamela, second edition (1741) Henry Fielding, Shamela (1741) Samuel Richardson, Preface and Conclusion to Pamela, volumes III and IV (1741) Samuel Richardson, Preliminary matter to Pamela, octavo edition (1742) VERSE RESPONSES Anon, 'Advice to Booksellers (after reading Pamela)' (1741) Poems from the London Magazine Josiah Relph, 'Wrote after Reading Pamela' (1747) Belinda, 'To the Author of Pamela' (1745) George Bennet, extract from Pamela Versified (1741) Anon, 'Pamela the Second' (1742) J-W-, Pamela: or, The Fair Impostor (1743)