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Samuel Richardson: Pamela in Her Exalted Condition

The immediate sensational success of Richardson’s first novel (published without the author’s name), generated, practically within weeks, more than a dozen imitations, ‘retailings’ and fictitious continuations of the heroine’s story to the author’s not inconsiderable annoyance. Most upsetting for him was a concoction calling itself “Pamela’s Conduct in High Life”, purported to be “from her ORIGINAL PAPERS”, appearing only some six months after the original. It was this unscrupulous exploitation of his literary success and reputation that made him decide to pursue Pamela’s further career himself, and only thirteen months after the publication of Pamela: or Virtue Rewarded his own continuation, Pamela in Her Exalted Condition, appeared, with a preface explaining that the “editor was provoked into a Necessity of altering his Intention”, to close the work, as originally planned, and to record instead, “the more exalted Condition in which PAMELA was destin’d to shine, as an affectionate Wife, a faithful Friend, a polite and kind Neighbour, an indulgent Mother and a beneficent Mistress” (p. 3).

DOI: https://doi.org/10.37307/j.1866-5381.2012.02.50
Lizenz: ESV-Lizenz
ISSN: 1866-5381
Ausgabe / Jahr: 2 / 2012
Veröffentlicht: 2012-12-14
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