Anti-Pamela; or Feign’d Innocence Detected by Eliza Haywood, and: An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews by Henry Fielding (review)

136 side Ian Brissenden’s fine work, or Markman Ellis’s overwrought study alongside John Mullan’s brilliant effort. But these are small points, and the Introductionwill do students no harm. The notes are adequate , almostsolelyrepetitionsofearlier notes by Petrie, Stout, and Keymer. New scholarship from the Shandean iscitedon a handful of occasions, but no other scholarly work on Sentimental Journey is brought to bear in the annotations.Hence, the many readings of Sterne’s work published since 1967 remain unknown to student readers except as listings in the now compulsory ‘‘Selected Bibliography’’accompanying all Penguin texts; this is information better garnered from the internet . Mr. Parnell’s Introduction and notes are much more useful; he has thought about the texts, thought about the relationship between the Journey, Bramine’s Journal, and Sterne as a sermon writer and moralist. A few specifics will help establish Mr. Parnell’s superior annotations over Mr. Goring’s. When Yorick writes about La Fleur and himself being better for always being in love, Mr. Goring issilent, Mr.Parnellpointstoasimilar comment in Sterne’s letters, to an observation by Barker-Benfield, to a brief sentence in Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments. When Sterne talks about the sufferings of slavery, Mr. Goring predictably enough cites Ignatius Sancho and the sermon to which he had responded ; Mr. Parnell goes further: the sermon is reprinted in this text, and again Adam Smith is brought to bear, along with the Florida Notes to Tristram Shandy, and a useful essay by Kenneth MacLean on ‘‘Imagination and Sympathy.’’When Yorick comments on the sparrows on his window sill, Mr. Goring is silent;Mr.Parnell , having an awareness of thirty-five intervening years of scholarship since Stout, provides the recently recovered source for Sterne’s little joke. Finally, for that highly complex passage in which Yorick quotes Addison’s Catoandevokes the great sensorium of the world, Mr. Goring cites the appropriate text and is aware of several scriptural verses underpinning the passage; nothing is saidabout ‘‘sensorium.’’ Mr. Parnell offers a discussion , not as rich as one would like, but at least a discussion. One really doesneed to return to Cato, however, better to understand what Sterne is doing here— certainly students reading the passageare not much wiser for being told ‘‘paraphrased from Cato . . . by Joseph Addison ’’ and nothing more. Mr. Goring has fifteen pages of notes, Mr. Parnell, twenty-three. This is significant, given that Mr. Parnell probably has a note for everything Mr. Goring does, so that the extra pages contain additional materials for elucidating what is, after all, a highly complex work of art. Clearly then, for classroom use an instructor should use the Oxford text over the Penguin. In the best of all possible worlds, however, tradebook editors would publish their editions as soon as possible after a new scholarly edition appears and not rush into print just prior to its appearance in order to establish some sort of empty priority. Perhaps Sterne says it best: ‘‘we can acquire arts and sciences by our own application and study.—But the case is not the same in respect of goodness’’ (‘‘On enthusiasm ’’); less metaphorically, it is easy enough to publish, but far more difficult to know when one should publish. Melvyn New University of Florida ELIZA HAYWOOD. Anti-Pamela; or Feign’d Innocence Detected, and HENRY 137 FIELDING. An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews, ed. Catherine Ingrassia . Peterborough, Ont: Broadview,2004. Pp. 336. $14.95. Haywood takes top billing in the first annotated edition of Anti-Pamela to be published. She and Fielding—as dramatists , anti-Walpole satirists, and, most importantly, fiction writers with ‘‘finely tuned’’commercial sensibilities—shared a ‘‘milieu.’’Herachievementdeservesnot only to be spoken of in the same breath as Fielding’s, but in the breath before. The Introduction and Appendices focus upon ‘‘women’s material culture.’’ The heroine of Anti-Pamela, Syrena Tricksy, needs to work when she is not being kept. Her labor is described in extensive detail, descriptions that have no counterpart in Shamela. Pamela’s labor is briefly described, and her status as a worker is uncertain. Scrubbing pots hurts her hands, and she never has been on Mrs. B’s...