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Fielding's comic masterpiece of 1749 was immediately attacked as 'A
motley history of bastardism, fornication, and adultery'. Indeed, his
populous novel overflows with a marvellous assortment of prudes,
whores, libertines, bumpkins, misanthropes, hypocrites, scoundrels,
virgins, and all too fallible humanitarians. At the centre of one of
the most ingenious plots in English fiction stands a hero whose actions
were, in 1749, as shocking as they are funny today.
Expelled
from Mr Allworthy's country estate for his wild temper and sexual
conquests, the good-hearted foundling Tom Jones loses his money, joins
the army, and pursues his beloved across Britain to London, where he
becomes a kept lover and confronts the possibility of incest. Tom Jones
is rightly regarded as Fielding's greatest work, and one of the first
and most influential of English novels. This carefully modernized
edition is based on Fielding's emended fourth edition text and offers
the most thorough notes, maps, and bibliography.
The
introduction uses the latest scholarship to examine how Tom Jones
exemplifies the role of the novel in the emerging eighteenth-century
public sphere.
Synopsis
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
Fielding's comic masterpiece of 1749 was immediately attacked as 'A motley history of bastardism, fornication, and adultery'. Indeed, his populous novel overflows with a marvellous assortment of prudes, whores, libertines, bumpkins, misanthropes, hypocrites, scoundrels, virgins, and all too fallible humanitarians. At the centre of one of the most ingenious plots in English fiction stands a hero whose actions were, in 1749, as shocking as they are funny today.
The introduction uses the latest scholarship to examine how Tom Jones exemplifies the role of the novel in the emerging eighteenth-century public sphere.
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Paperback
Author
Henry Fielding
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication date
14th August 2008
ISBN
9780199536993
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