Tom Jones
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…
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Weitere Autoren: Bender, John (Hrsg.) / Stern, Simon (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-160557-4
- EAN: 9780191605574
- Produktnummer: 13890219
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'093 KB
- Abbildungen: 2 maps
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John Bender is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Stanford University. He is author of Spenser and Literary Pictorialism and Imagining the Penitentiary: Fiction and Architecture of Mind in Eighteenth-Century England, co-editor of The Ends of Rhetoric and Chronotypes: The Construction of Time, and associate editor of The Columbia History of the British Novel. Simon Stern iscompleting a study of literary property and professional authorship in eighteenth-century England, focusing on Henry and Sarah Fielding.
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