
Tom Jones
Edited by John / Stern, Simon Bender
Henry Fielding(Author)
Oxford Paperbacks (Publisher)
Published on 18. June 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
960 pages
978-0-19-283497-3 (ISBN)
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Description
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.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Target group
Adult education
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
2 maps
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 129 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-19-283497-3 (9780192834973)
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