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...APOLOGY FOR THE LIFE OF MRS. SHAMELA ANDREWS (86 pp.) - Henry Fielding - University of California...
...fighting with her back to the bedroom wall, seems to have given Richardson's friend and fellow-novelist, Henry Fielding (Tom Jones), a hearty laugh instead, or at least the idea for a bawdy satire. Within six months, he pseudonymously penned An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews, a short but exact parody* written, like Pamela, in the form of letters. In it, he turned a drily realistic eye on Pamela's character and behavior. In Fielding's view, Richardson's Pamela was a sham, not so much the valiant defender of her virtue...
...taken the course with Professor Whiting, his lectures have been the bright spot in many a morning of dreary pedanties. Whether he is engrossed in debunking a scholar who purports to prove that someone else wrote Shakespeare's plays, describing and mimicking that maid-of-all-work, Fielding's Shamela Andrews, or stepping into the role of Charles Lamb's lunatic sister, this jovial son of Maine injects humor, pathos, and human interest into lectures that have earned him the epithet, "a one-man vaudeville show...
Continuing its series of "Armchair Audits," the Crimson Network will present B. J. Whiting '25 associate professor of English, tonight. Professor whiting repeats his English 18 lecture "Pameia and Shamela" at 9 o'clock...