Description
Joseph Andrews with Shamela is a compelling literary work that offers an accurate text of Henry Fielding's satire on Samuel Richardson's celebrated epistolary novel, Pamela. This essential edition not only includes the complete text of Shamela but also features An Essay on the Knowledge of the Characters of Men, selections from The Champion, and the Preface to The Adventures of David Simple, all richly annotated for modern readers. Published in 2010 by W W Norton & Company, this beautifully presented paperback edition spans 512 pages of insightful commentary and critical analysis.
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Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780393955552
Year: 2010
Publisher: W W Norton & Company
Pages: 512
Description:
An accurate text of Shamela (Fielding's satire of Samuel Richardson's Pamela, the most popular epistolary novel of the eighteenth century) as well as An Essay on the Knowledge of the Characters of Men, selections from The Champion, and the Preface to The Adventures of David Simple are also included.? All of the texts are fully annotated.
"Backgrounds" contains generous extracts from works that Fielding satirized”Pamela and Conyer Middleton's Dedication to the Life of Cicero”and emulated”Gil Blas and selections from Don Quixote, the Roman Comique, and Le Paysan Parvenu.? The section concludes with a general explanation of the political and religious contexts in which Joseph Andrews was written.
"Criticism" offers a broad range of responses to the novel.? Contemporary assessments include selected letters of Thomas Gray, William Shenstone, Samuel Richardson, and others as well as commentary from The Student, or Oxford and Cambridge Monthly Miscellany, by William Hazlitt, James Beattie, and Sarah Fielding and Jane Collier.
Modern assessments are by Mark Spilka, Dick Taylor, Jr., Martin Battestin, Sheldon Sacks, Morris Golden, Brian McCrea, and Homer Goldberg.
A Selected Bibliography is also included.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780393955552
Year: 2010
Publisher: W W Norton & Company
Pages: 512
Description:
An accurate text of Shamela (Fielding's satire of Samuel Richardson's Pamela, the most popular epistolary novel of the eighteenth century) as well as An Essay on the Knowledge of the Characters of Men, selections from The Champion, and the Preface to The Adventures of David Simple are also included.? All of the texts are fully annotated.
"Backgrounds" contains generous extracts from works that Fielding satirized”Pamela and Conyer Middleton's Dedication to the Life of Cicero”and emulated”Gil Blas and selections from Don Quixote, the Roman Comique, and Le Paysan Parvenu.? The section concludes with a general explanation of the political and religious contexts in which Joseph Andrews was written.
"Criticism" offers a broad range of responses to the novel.? Contemporary assessments include selected letters of Thomas Gray, William Shenstone, Samuel Richardson, and others as well as commentary from The Student, or Oxford and Cambridge Monthly Miscellany, by William Hazlitt, James Beattie, and Sarah Fielding and Jane Collier.
Modern assessments are by Mark Spilka, Dick Taylor, Jr., Martin Battestin, Sheldon Sacks, Morris Golden, Brian McCrea, and Homer Goldberg.
A Selected Bibliography is also included.