An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews
A Comic Parody of Pamela, Sentimental Fiction, and Eighteenth-Century HypocrisyBy Henry Fielding
Length1h 49m
About this audiobook
Published anonymously in 1741, Henry Fielding's *An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews* is a brilliantly compressed parody of Samuel Richardson's immensely popular *Pamela*. It appropriates the epistolary form and the rhetoric of feminine virtue only to expose their theatricality: Shamela's celebrated chastity becomes a calculated strategy for securing marriage, money, and social advancement, while her lover, Mr. Booby, is less a romantic hero than a participant in a mutually profitable deception. Through comic letters, exaggerated moralizing, and pointed narrative intrusions, Fielding satirizes sentimental fiction, religious cant, class aspiration, and the unstable relationship between literary representation and moral truth. The work belongs to the Augustan tradition of wit and satire, while also anticipating the self-conscious, socially expansive English novel.
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GenreHumor, General Fiction
Length1 hr 49 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 27, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Is Shakespeare Dead? (Annotated)
2To Miss Fanny, &c.
3The Editor to Himself.
4John Puff, Esq; to the Editor.
5Parson Tickletext to Parson Oliver.
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6Parson Oliver to Parson Tickletext.
7Shamela Andrews to Mrs. Henrietta Maria Honora Andrews at her Lodgings at the Fan and Pepper-Box in Drury-Lane.
8Shamela Andrews to Henrietta Maria Honora Andrews.
9Henrietta Maria Honora Andrews to Shamela Andrews.
10Shamela Andrews to Henrietta Maria Honora Andrews.
11Henrietta Maria Honora Andrews to Shamela Andrews.
12Shamela Andrews to Henrietta Maria Honora Andrews.
13Thursday Night, Twelve o'Clock.
14Friday Morning.
15Mrs. Lucretia Jervis to Henrietta Maria Honora Andrews.
16Henrietta Maria Honora Andrews to Lucretia Jervis.
17Shamela Andrews to Henrietta Maria Honora Andrews.
18Parson Williams to Pamela Andrews.
19Shamela Andrews to Henrietta Maria Honora Andrews.
20Squire Booby to Pamela.
21Henrietta Maria Honora Andrews to Shamela Andrews.
22Shamela Andrews to Henrietta Maria Honora Andrews.
23Parson Williams to Pamela.
24Parson Williams to Squire Booby.
25Shamela Booby to Henrietta Maria Honora Andrews.
26Parson Tickletext to Parson Oliver.
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