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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      June 2022
      March 2012
      ISBN:
      9781139033480
      9780521848947
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139033480
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.42kg, 820 Pages
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      • Collection:
      The Works of Samuel Richardson
      Subjects:
      Literature, Literary Texts, English Literature 1700-1830
      Series:
      The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Samuel Richardson
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    Collection:
    The Works of Samuel Richardson
    Subjects:
    Literature, Literary Texts, English Literature 1700-1830
    Series:
    The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Samuel Richardson
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    Pamela in Her Exalted Condition follows the heroine of Richardson's hugely popular first novel into married life. In the process, he explores both the experience of women beyond the stage of courtship and provides a fascinating insight into the social and cultural life of the mid eighteenth century. The first ever scholarly edition of the novel, this volume features a critically edited text, general and textual introductions, full annotations and textual apparatus. Appendices describe all the editions published in Richardson's lifetime as well as early nineteenth-century editions. The original illustrations from the popular octavo edition of 1742 and Richardson's index are reproduced. The publication of this novel in the Cambridge edition allows the sequel to Pamela to take its rightful place in the critical study of Richardson's development as a novelist.

    Reviews

    'For Richardson scholars, these meticulously edited volumes will represent an epoch in the field, since they will constitute the only comprehensive scholarly edition.'

    Source: The Eighteenth Century

    ‘Rivero’s work included examining three dif­ferent first editions, which is better than the example cited earlier.’

    Kit Kincade Source: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

    ‘Any reader who has fully absorbed the terrors of Pamela’s marriage or pursued to the end the intensities of Clarissa will want to read Grandison too, and so will Jane Austen fans curious about the novel said to have been her favorite. What awaits them is a love story fueled by embarrassment, a forerunner to the modern romantic comedy but also a worthy successor to Clarissa, in which the protagonists face situations so abysmally awkward as to require of them heroic feats of tact and moral imagination. That we now have a magisterial scholarly edition in print is cause for celebration.’

    Sarah Raff Source: Eighteenth-Century Studies, on The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Samuel Richardson

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