Tom Jones

ISBN-13: 9780393965940 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 816 str.

Henry Fielding; Sheridan Warner Baker

Opis

As in the previous edition, "Contemporary Reactions" by such noteworthy commentators as Samuel Richardson, Samuel Johnson, and the Hill sisters provide rich historical context "Criticism" is a collection of fourteen interpretations of the novel spanning the years 1826-1990 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Forsyth, Kenneth Rexroth, R. S. Crane, John Preston, William Empson, Wayne C. Booth, Martin Battestin, Maaja A. Stewart, Eleanor N. Hutchens, Sean Shesgreen, Frederick W. Hilles, and Sheridan Baker A new Chronology and an updated Selected Bibliography are also included.

O autorze

Henry Fielding (1707-54), geb. in Somerset, ließ sich zunächst als Bühnenautor in London nieder. Mit späteren Prosawerken wurde er zum Wegbereiter des modernen Romans in der englischen Literatur.