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Article: 'Pamela' in the Marketplace: Literary Controversy and Print Culture in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- October 1, 2007
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'Pamela' in the Marketplace: Literary Controversy and Print Culture in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland. By THOMAS KEYMER and PETER SABOR. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2005. x + 295 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-521-81337-2.
This excellent book derives from Thomas Keymer and Peter Sabor's previous joint work--The 'Pamela' Controvery: Criticisms and Adaptations of Samuel Richardson's 'Pamela', 1740-1750, 6 vols (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2001), which provided headnotes to the facsimiles of the many pamphlets, parodies, plays, verses, illustrations, and other printed matter generated by the 'Epidemical Phrenzy' caused by Richardson's ...