Henry Fielding: Tom Jones
Tom Jones
Buch
- With an Introduction by John Bender
- Herausgeber: John Bender, Simon Stern
- Sydney University Press, 10/2008
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, ,
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780199536993
- Bestellnummer: 5217749
- Umfang: 968 Seiten
- Sonstiges: 3 maps.
- Auflage: Reissued.
- Copyright-Jahr: 2008
- Gewicht: 655 g
- Maße: 197 x 129 mm
- Stärke: 45 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 15.10.2008
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Kurzbeschreibung
In seinem breit angelegten Gesellschaftepos entlarvt Fielding gesellschaftliche Mißstände ebenso schonungslos wie die charakterlichen Schwächen seiner Helden. Allen voran erobert der liebenswerte, ungestüme, keineswegs untadelige, aber unerhört sympathische Tom Jones bis heute spielend das Herz eines jeden Lesers. Tom Jones is rightly regarded as Fielding's greatest work, and one of the first and most influential of English novels. Attacked at the time as `A motley history of bastardism, fornication, and adultery', it overflows with a marvellous assortment of prudes, whores, libertines, bumpkins, misanthropes, hypocrites, scoundrels, virgins, and all too fallible humanitarians.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.
Beschreibung
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 MrAllworthy'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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Klappentext
Tom Jones (1749) is rightly regarded as Fielding's greatest work, and one of the first and most influential of English novels. At the center 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. This carefully modernized edition is based on Fielding's emended fourth edition text and offers the most thorough Notes, Maps, and Bibliography.Biografie (Henry Fielding)
Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754), geboren in Somerset, ließ sich zunächst als Bühnenautor in London nieder. Mit späteren Prosawerken wurde er zum Wegbereiter des modernen Romans in der englischen Literatur.Mehr von Henry Fielding
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