帕梅拉（牛津世界经典系列） Pamela (Oxford World’s Classics)

基本信息

Edited by:Thomas Keymer, Alice Wakely

Series:Oxford World's Classics

Format:Paperback / softback 592 pages

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Imprint:Oxford University Press

ISBN:9780199536498

Published:12 Jun 2008

Weight:404g

Dimensions:195 x 129 x 27 (mm)

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书籍简介

本书被誉为英国伤感主义文学杰出的代表作，又因用书信体写成，故事之中含有丰富的情感倾诉，因此出版后曾在英国出现一股帕梅拉热。富家子爱上一名美貌使女，威逼利诱企图占有她，她以死抗拒，维护贞操。双方历经多次占有与反占有的交锋，互相反而渐渐产生了真正的爱情。富家子被感动了，也变好了正式娶她为妻子。故事虽不复杂，但折射出对世俗观念的突破，有很强的艺术感染力。

这本书生动地描述了一个年轻仆人对她的掠夺性主人勾引她的企图的长期抵抗。《帕梅拉》以其出身低微的女主人公的口吻写成，但作者是一位15年前因其出版社的煽动性出版物而险些入狱的出版商，《帕梅拉》不仅是一部具有开创性的复杂心理学作品，而且也是一部令人信服和挑衅的权力研究。

该版本以1740年的原文为基础，理查森后来在一系列防御性的修订中退出了原文，该版本提供了《帕梅拉》的版本，该版本在出现时引起了广泛的争议。

关于该系列：100多年来，《牛津世界经典》提供了全球范围内广泛的文学作品。每一卷都体现了牛津大学对学术研究的承诺，提供准确的文本和大量其他有价值的功能，包括由专业人士提供的专家介绍、澄清文本的有用注释、用于进一步研究的新书目，等等。

'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 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 hero , 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.

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作者简介

托马斯-凯默的书包括理查德森的《克拉丽莎》和《十八世纪读本》（1992年）以及OWC版的菲尔丁的《约瑟夫-安德鲁和沙梅拉》。

Thomas Keymer's books include Richardson's Clarissa and the Eighteenth Century Reader (1992) and the OWC edition of Fielding's Joseph Andrews and Shamela.