'Pamela under the Notion of being a Virtuous Modest Girl will be introduced into all Familes,and when she gets there, what Scenes does she represent? Why a fine young Gentleman endeavouring to debauch a beautiful young Girl of Sixteen.' (Pamela Censured, 1741) One of the most spectacular successes of the burgeoning literary marketplace of eighteeent-century London, Pamela also marked a defining moment in the emergence of the modern novel. In the words of one contemporary, it divided the world 'into two different Parties, Pamelists and Antipamelists', even eclipsing the sensational factional politics of the day. Preached up for its morality, and denounced as pornography in disguise, it vividly describes a young servant's long resistance to the attempts of her predatory master to seduce her. Written in the voice of its low-born heroine, but by a printer who fifteen years earlier had narrowly escaped imprisonment for the seditious output of his press, Pamela is not only a work of pioneering psychological complexity, but also a compelling and provocative study of power and its abuse. Based on the original text of 1740, from which Richardson later retreated in a series of defensive revisions, this edition makes available the version of Pamela that aroused such widespread controversy on its first appearance. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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純粹是一時興起,奧斯汀看多瞭這類小說,抱著瞧瞧的心態。我看書嚮來是亂翻,隻用瞭半個下午,所以沒有評論的資格。簡單說感受吧。譯者前言就把興趣打掉一半,當然對作者人生那是肅然起敬。身為三大印刷廠主之一的作者作為學徒後來娶瞭廠主的女兒獲得人生的成功第一步。我對這...
評分標準的言情,我看的版本比這老多瞭,翻譯很一般。老實說,當初看得很勉強。倒不是說劇情不精彩或人物過分老土僵硬,我對言情嚮來是很寬容的。隻是這本總是缺點什麼,男主角做得太過分,逼得太緊;女主又十分堅定不拔,或許我是女生,隻覺得她對於男主角的好感在後期已被磨滅的...
評分這本書寫的還可以,但是有18、19世紀那時的思想局限性。伯爵後來明媒正娶瞭帕梅拉,大傢可以看到帕梅拉感激成什麼樣瞭,動不動就撲到在伯爵的腳下,感恩的進行錶白,愛情中的兩個人是平等的,愛情不是賜予與恩惠。再看周圍的人,他們懾於伯爵的權勢見風使舵,那個牧師,一再錶...
評分這本書寫的還可以,但是有18、19世紀那時的思想局限性。伯爵後來明媒正娶瞭帕梅拉,大傢可以看到帕梅拉感激成什麼樣瞭,動不動就撲到在伯爵的腳下,感恩的進行錶白,愛情中的兩個人是平等的,愛情不是賜予與恩惠。再看周圍的人,他們懾於伯爵的權勢見風使舵,那個牧師,一再錶...
評分現在看此書的意義與其在關注婚前的貞潔,還不如更反映當時的英國社會現狀以及婚姻觀。 帕梅拉是B先生媽媽的女僕,按階級等級是無論如何不可能與B先生結婚的,這還不似《傲慢與偏見》。而最初先生也隻是打算讓其做情婦。不過這在清教徒風氣的英國,至少在正派人之中是不可能的...
圖書標籤: 英國文學 小說 早期英國小說 英文原版 外國文學 SamuelRichardson 英語文學 英文
My classmates's post on facebook: after reading Pamela, I never want to see the following words again -- virtue, honest, innocent, God, grace, generous | Oxford edition is more reasonable than Penguin in terms of margin.
評分... ENGL 217
評分我屬於anti-Pamelist
評分書信體讀來有些枯燥,但是書信體的這種形式讓讀者有種voyeur的感覺,這種窺探他人privacy的事實正如小說中的男主私自看Pamela的書信,所以好像讓讀者身臨其境男主的心情。在讀這本書的時候,感覺自己不像是活在書外的人,而是和女主進行直接對話,分析她亦真亦幻的情感,對於virtue堅決的preservation,但又字裏行間流露齣來的被壓抑的欲望。這本書有很多不同的解讀,可以說是浪漫的愛情故事,也可說是因為sexual assault而成就的所謂的婚姻。女主男主到底是真愛?還是女主為瞭virtue不得不作此選擇?還是在sexual assault之前女主就對男主有感情,隻不過被壓抑,在這之後對他有厭惡,又愛又恨地嫁給瞭他?尤其在當下頻頻發生各種事情的當口,再讀Pamela意味深長
評分因為聽瞭演講纔讀,Richardson這個名字也隻是齣現在考研文學史那本書上的一個名字而已,不過現在不是瞭,對女性的心理描寫非常細緻,有很多幽默誇張搞笑的點,喜歡一個。
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