''Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded'' is a novel by Samuel Richardson, first published in 1740. While Richardson did not invent the name ''Pamela'' the novel did help to popularize the name in English-speaking countries. The novel is in epistolary novel form, consisting of letters and diary entries. The heroine, Pamela Andrews, is a maid whose master, Mr. B, makes unwanted advances towards her. She rejects him until he shows his sincerity by proposing a fair marriage to her. In the second part of the novel, Pamela attempts to accommodate herself to upper-class society and to build a successful relationship with her husband. Widely mocked at the time for its perceived licentiousness, the story inspired many parodies, including two by Henry Fielding: ''Shamela'' (1742), about Pamela's less virtuous sister, and ''Joseph Andrews'' (1742), which exposes the sexual hypocrisy in ''Pamela'' by retaining the plot but switching the sexes of the protagonists. ===Conduct books and the novel=== When Richardson began writing ''Pamela'', he conceived of it as a conduct book. (One could say that the eighteenth-century conduct book is the forerunner of today’s etiquette and self-help books.) But as he was writing, the series of letters turned into a story. Richardson then decided to write in a different genre, the novel. He attempted to instruct through entertainment. In fact, most novels from the middle of the eighteenth century and well into the nineteenth century, following Richardson’s lead, claimed legitimacy through their ability to teach as well as to amuse. ===Epistolarity=== [[Image:Pamela-1742.png|thumb|right|240px|An engraving by Francis Hayman and Hughbert Gravelot from the 1742 octavo edition of ''Pamela,'' which combined all four parts of the novel into one volume. The scene is Mr. B's interception of Pamela's first letter.]] Epistolary novels, that is, novels written as a series of letters, were extremely popular during the eighteenth century and it was Richardson's ''Pamela'' that made them so. Richardson and other novelists of his time argued that the letter allowed the reader greater access to a character's thoughts; Richardson claimed that he was writing "to the moment," that is, that Pamela's thoughts were recorded nearly simultaneously with her actions. In the novel, Pamela writes two kinds of letters. At the beginning of the novel, while she is deciding how long to stay on at Mr. B’s after the death of his mother, she writes letters to her parents relating her various moral dilemmas and asking for their advice. After Mr. B abducts her and imprisons her in his countryhouse, she continues to write letters to her parents, but because she is unsure whether or not her parents will ever receive them, they are to be considered both letters and a diary. In ''Pamela'', the reader receives only the thoughts and letters of Pamela, restricting the reader’s access to the other characters; we see only Pamela's perception of them. In Richardson's other novels, ''Clarissa'' (1748) and ''Sir Charles Grandison'' (1753), the reader is privy to the letters of several characters and can thus more effectively evaluate the motivations and moral values of the characters. ===Criticism=== *Armstrong, Nancy. ''Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel''. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. *Doody, Margaret Anne. ''A Natural Passion: A Study of the Novels of Samuel Richardson''. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974. *McKeon, Michael. ''The Origins of the English Novel: 1600-1740''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. *Watt, Ian. ''The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding''. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1957. British novels
Richardson did not invent the name "Pamela"; he took it from Philip Sidney's Old Arcadia. The novel Pamela led to the name's subsequent popularity. == Expansion == I've removed the following section headings from the article. They should not appear on the page until actually written about. ===The public and the private spheres=== ===The middle class=== ===Sensibility=== ===Gender, sexuality and the body=== ===Reception=== ===Richardson's revisions=== To this end, I also append the following notice. - User:Dcljr (User talk:Dcljr) 21:05, 22 May 2005 (UTC)
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Words begining with Pamela:
Pamela
Pamela
Pamela,_or_Virtue_Rewarded
Pamela:_Or,_Virtue_Rewarded
Pamela:_Or_Virtue_Rewarded
Pamelaescincus
Pamela_A._Melroy
Pamela_Anderson
Pamela_Anderson
Pamela_anderson
Pamela_Ann_Melroy
Pamela_Bellwood
Pamela_Brown
Pamela_C._Rasmussen
Pamela_Colman_Smith
Pamela_Connolly
Pamela_Cox
Pamela_Day
Pamela_Dean
Pamela_dean
Pamela_Denise_Anderson
Pamela_Des_Barres
Pamela_Duncan
Pamela_Fitzgerald
Pamela_Fitzgerald
Pamela_Frank
Pamela_Green
Pamela_Hansford_Johnson
Pamela_Harriman
Pamela_Harriman
Pamela_Hayden
Pamela_Hensley
Pamela_Jenkins
Pamela_Jones
Pamela_Jones
Pamela_K._Long
Pamela_L._Travers
Pamela_Lee
Pamela_London
Pamela_Long
Pamela_Long_Hammer
Pamela_Lyndon_Travers
Pamela_M._Kilmartin
Pamela_Melroy
Pamela_Munro
Pamela_munro
Pamela_Paulshock
Pamela_Payton-Wright
Pamela_Reed
Pamela_Salem
Pamela_Segall
Pamela_Sharples
Pamela_Sharples,_Baroness_Sharples
Pamela_Singh
Pamela_Slaney
Pamela_Smart
Pamela_Smart
Pamela_Stephenson
Pamela_Stephenson_Connolly
Pamela_Sue_Martin
Pamela_Travers
Pamela_Wallin
Pamela_Wallin_Live
Pamela_Williams
Pamela_Wyndham
Pamela
''Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded'' is a novel by Samuel Richardson, first published in 1740. While Richardson did not invent the name ''Pamela'' the novel did help to popularize the name in English-speaking countries. The novel is in epistolary novel form, consisting of letters and diary entries. The heroine, Pamela Andrews, is a maid whose master, Mr. B, makes unwanted advances towards her. She rejects him until he shows his sincerity by proposing a fair marriage to her. In the second part of the novel, Pamela attempts to accommodate herself to upper-class society and to build a successful relationship with her husband. Widely mocked at the time for its perceived licentiousness, the story inspired many parodies, including two by Henry Fielding: ''Shamela'' (1742), about Pamela's less virtuous sister, and ''Joseph Andrews'' (1742), which exposes the sexual hypocrisy in ''Pamela'' by retaining the plot but switching the sexes of the protagonists. ===Conduct books and the novel=== When Richardson began writing ''Pamela'', he conceived of it as a conduct book. (One could say that the eighteenth-century conduct book is the forerunner of today’s etiquette and self-help books.) But as he was writing, the series of letters turned into a story. Richardson then decided to write in a different genre, the novel. He attempted to instruct through entertainment. In fact, most novels from the middle of the eighteenth century and well into the nineteenth century, following Richardson’s lead, claimed legitimacy through their ability to teach as well as to amuse. ===Epistolarity=== [[Image:Pamela-1742.png|thumb|right|240px|An engraving by Francis Hayman and Hughbert Gravelot from the 1742 octavo edition of ''Pamela,'' which combined all four parts of the novel into one volume. The scene is Mr. B's interception of Pamela's first letter.]] Epistolary novels, that is, novels written as a series of letters, were extremely popular during the eighteenth century and it was Richardson's ''Pamela'' that made them so. Richardson and other novelists of his time argued that the letter allowed the reader greater access to a character's thoughts; Richardson claimed that he was writing "to the moment," that is, that Pamela's thoughts were recorded nearly simultaneously with her actions. In the novel, Pamela writes two kinds of letters. At the beginning of the novel, while she is deciding how long to stay on at Mr. B’s after the death of his mother, she writes letters to her parents relating her various moral dilemmas and asking for their advice. After Mr. B abducts her and imprisons her in his countryhouse, she continues to write letters to her parents, but because she is unsure whether or not her parents will ever receive them, they are to be considered both letters and a diary. In ''Pamela'', the reader receives only the thoughts and letters of Pamela, restricting the reader’s access to the other characters; we see only Pamela's perception of them. In Richardson's other novels, ''Clarissa'' (1748) and ''Sir Charles Grandison'' (1753), the reader is privy to the letters of several characters and can thus more effectively evaluate the motivations and moral values of the characters. ===Criticism=== *Armstrong, Nancy. ''Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel''. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. *Doody, Margaret Anne. ''A Natural Passion: A Study of the Novels of Samuel Richardson''. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974. *McKeon, Michael. ''The Origins of the English Novel: 1600-1740''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. *Watt, Ian. ''The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding''. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1957. British novels
Pamela
Richardson did not invent the name "Pamela"; he took it from Philip Sidney's Old Arcadia. The novel Pamela led to the name's subsequent popularity. == Expansion == I've removed the following section headings from the article. They should not appear on the page until actually written about. ===The public and the private spheres=== ===The middle class=== ===Sensibility=== ===Gender, sexuality and the body=== ===Reception=== ===Richardson's revisions=== To this end, I also append the following notice. - User:Dcljr (User talk:Dcljr) 21:05, 22 May 2005 (UTC)
See other meanings of words starting from letter:
P
PA | PB | PC | PD | PE | PF | PG | PH | PI | PJ | PK | PL | PM | PN | PO | PR | PS | PT | PU | PW | PX | PY | PZ |Words begining with Pamela:
Pamela
Pamela
Pamela,_or_Virtue_Rewarded
Pamela:_Or,_Virtue_Rewarded
Pamela:_Or_Virtue_Rewarded
Pamelaescincus
Pamela_A._Melroy
Pamela_Anderson
Pamela_Anderson
Pamela_anderson
Pamela_Ann_Melroy
Pamela_Bellwood
Pamela_Brown
Pamela_C._Rasmussen
Pamela_Colman_Smith
Pamela_Connolly
Pamela_Cox
Pamela_Day
Pamela_Dean
Pamela_dean
Pamela_Denise_Anderson
Pamela_Des_Barres
Pamela_Duncan
Pamela_Fitzgerald
Pamela_Fitzgerald
Pamela_Frank
Pamela_Green
Pamela_Hansford_Johnson
Pamela_Harriman
Pamela_Harriman
Pamela_Hayden
Pamela_Hensley
Pamela_Jenkins
Pamela_Jones
Pamela_Jones
Pamela_K._Long
Pamela_L._Travers
Pamela_Lee
Pamela_London
Pamela_Long
Pamela_Long_Hammer
Pamela_Lyndon_Travers
Pamela_M._Kilmartin
Pamela_Melroy
Pamela_Munro
Pamela_munro
Pamela_Paulshock
Pamela_Payton-Wright
Pamela_Reed
Pamela_Salem
Pamela_Segall
Pamela_Sharples
Pamela_Sharples,_Baroness_Sharples
Pamela_Singh
Pamela_Slaney
Pamela_Smart
Pamela_Smart
Pamela_Stephenson
Pamela_Stephenson_Connolly
Pamela_Sue_Martin
Pamela_Travers
Pamela_Wallin
Pamela_Wallin_Live
Pamela_Williams
Pamela_Wyndham
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