Product Description: One of the first great British novels, Samuel Richardson’s classic tale became a legend to his own age and remains so today.Defying her parents’ desire for her to marry a loathsome man for his wealth, the virtuous Clarissa escapes into the dangerous arms of the charming rogue Lovelace, whose intentions are much less than honorable...read more

A rakish city gentleman, the roguish Lovelace determines to seduce Clarissa, the virtuous, youngest daughter of the Harlowe household, in this eighteenth-century romance, in an abridged edition of the classic novel. Reprint.

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Product Description: Samuel Richardson's highly acclaimed Clarissa, commonly read as a courtship novel, is in fact a story about the transaction between Robert Lovelace, a pathological narcissist, and Clarissa Harlowe, his victim, whom he idealizes, yet is compelled to destroy...read more

Product Description: Pamela es una novela compuesta de cartas y diarios en la que Richardson se presenta como el editor de ese material. La novela es la historia de una joven bella, virtuosa y orgullosa que defiende su dignidad y su castidad de los constantes asedios de un caballero de buena posición que valiéndose de su superioridad social ...read more

Product Description: "Elegantly written and persuasively argued."--Janet Todd, University of East AngliaThis book analyzes the ways in which female virtue was tied to a new concept of authenticity in 18th-century sentimental fiction, producing a redefiniton of gender relations on the one hand and a re-examination of the value and place of fictional narrative on the other...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Female hunger and eating habits have long been regarded as a form of discourse, a rich and complex metaphoric language of victimization, physicality, eroticism, and empowerment. Feminist scholars acknowledge that women's ability to manipulate food distribution and their bodies (often the only resources in their power) can be a double-edged sword, a tool that allows women to repress their sexuality, to establish social rank, to engage in charitable activities, even while it forces them to accommodate physical victimization in order to empower themselves...read more

Product Description: The Work(s) of Samuel Richardson brings together the master printer with the author/novelist in a study of Richardson's material texts and his work as a maker of books. Working from a grounding in recent textual theory, it focuses on select aspects of Richardson's career(s) and those of his books...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Recent years have witnessed renewed critical interest in the works of Samuel Richardson. This volume brings together a group of well-respected scholars to examine how and why the works of Richardson continue to intrigue us. As a whole, the essays reveal Richardson to be a writer constantly contradicting himself, striving not to be misunderstood...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book argues that Richardson's Clarissa is built on the interweaving of three literary plot types representing three different ethical trajectories: the Tested Woman Plot, the Don Juan Plot, and the Prudence Plot. Winner of the University of Delaware Press Eighteenth-Century Studies award...read more

Pamela - Virtue Rewarded By Samuel Richardson. Complete Un-Edited Edition. Once Banned Books. Samuel Richardson, the first, in order of time, of the great English novelists, was born in 1689 and died at London in 1761. He was a printer by trade, and rose to be master of the Stationers' Company. That he also became a novelist was due to his skill as a letter-writer, which brought him, in his fiftieth year, a commission to write a volume of model "familiar letters" as an aid to persons too illiterate to compose their own. The notion of connecting these letters by a story which had interested him suggested the plot of "Pamela" and determined its epistolary form—a form which was retained in his later works. This novel (published 1740) created an epoch in the history of English fiction, and, with its successors, exerted a wide influence upon Continental literature. It is appropriately included in a series which is designed to form a group of studies of English life by the masters of English fiction. For it marked the transition from the novel of adventure to the novel of character—from the narration of entertaining events to the study of men and of manners, of motives and of sentiments. In it the romantic interest of the story (which is of the slightest) is subordinated to the moral interest in the conduct of its characters in the various situations in which they are placed. Upon this aspect of the "drama of human life" Richardson cast a most observant, if not always a penetrating glance. His works are an almost microscopically detailed picture of English domestic life in the early part of the eighteenth century. Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded is an epistolary novel by Samuel Richardson, first published in 1740. It tells the story of a beautiful 15-year old maidservant named Pamela Andrews, whose country landowner master, Mr. B, makes unwanted advances towards her after the death of his mother, whose maid Pamela had been since age 12. Mr. B is infatuated with her, first by her looks and then her innocence and intelligence, but his high rank hinders him from proposing marriage. He abducts her, locks her up in one of his estates, and attempts to seduce and rape her. She rejects him continually, but starts to realise that she is falling in love with him. He intercepts her letters to her parents; reading them, he becomes even more enamored by her innocence, intelligence, and continuous escape attempts. Her virtue is eventually rewarded when he sincerely proposes an equitable marriage to her. In the novel's second part, Pamela attempts to build a successful relationship with him and to acclimatise to upper class society. The story, a best-seller of its time, was very widely read but criticised for its perceived licentiousness.