| Edition |
[First edition]. |
| Description |
viii, 934 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
A Norton critical edition
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 933-934). |
| Contents |
Part I. The text of Tom Jones -- Textual appendix -- Map of Tom's route to London -- Part II. Contemporary reactions -- A very amazing entertainment / Captain Lewis Thomas -- A double merit / Astraea and Minerva Hill -- A very bad tendency / Samuel Richardson -- An examen of The History of Tom Jones, a foundling / "Orbilius" -- Review of Pierre Antoine de la Place, Histoire de Tom Jones, ou L'Enfant Trouvé (1750) ; An essay on the new species of writing founded by Mr. Fielding / Anonymous -- Samuel Johnson on Fielding -- Part III. Criticism -- Notes on Tom Jones ; A master of composition / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- The failure of plot in Tom Jones / David Goldknopf -- Plot as irony : the reader's role in Tom Jones / John Preston -- Fielding's definition of wisdom : some functions of ambiguity and emblem in Tom Jones / Martin C. Battestin -- The plot of Tom Jones / R.S. Crane -- Tom Jones / William Empson -- "Fielding" in Tom Jones / Wayne C. Booth -- Tom Jones and Jacob de la Vallée / Lyall H. Powers -- Tom Jones / Kenneth Rexroth -- Bridget Allworthy : the creative pressures of Fielding's plot / Sheridan Baker -- Art and artifice in Tom Jones / Frederick W. Hilles. |
| Summary |
This volume presents the definitive text of Tom Jones, that of the fourth edition (1749, dated 1750), the last published in Fielding's lifetime. In this edition, Fielding added more than a thousand changes to the already carefully revised third edition and restored to their original version the "Man of the Hill" chapters, which had been abridged in the third edition. The editor has written a Textual Appendix especially for this volume which presents the cut passages to give the reader an inside look at Fielding's revision. |
| Subject |
Jones, Tom (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
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Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754. History of Tom Jones.
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Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction.
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Foundlings -- Fiction.
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Young men -- Fiction.
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England -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Humorous fiction.
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Bildungsromans.
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| Added Author |
Baker, Sheridan Warner, 1918-2000, compilor.
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| Added Title |
History of Tom Jones
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| ISBN |
0393043592 |
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0303093938 (pbk) |
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$14.95 |
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