'Pamela' in the Marketplace: Literary Controversy and Print Culture in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland

Abstract

Introduction 1. 'The selling part': publication, promotion, profits 2. Literary property and the trade in continuations 3. Counter-fictions and novel production 4. Domestic servitude and the licensed stage 5. Pamela illustrations and the visual culture of the novel 6. Commercial morality, colonial nationalism, and Pamela's Irish reception Afterword Appendix. A chronology of publications, performances and related events to 1750 Select bibliography Index.