Strategic Intelligence and National Decisions.

By Roger Hilsman

Samuel Richardson's Pamela (1740) is often regarded as the first true novel in English and a landmark in literary history. As the best selling novel of its time, it provoked a swarm of responses: panegyrics and critiques, parodies and burlesques, piracies and sequels, comedies and operas. The controversy it inspired has become a standard point of reference in studies of the rise of the novel, the history of the book and the emergence of consumer culture. In the first book-length study of the Pamela controversy since 1960, Thomas Keymer and Peter Sabor offer an original definitive account of the novel's enormous cultural impact.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313227179
• ISBN13: 9780313227172
• Release Date: April 1981
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 187 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.