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
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. ABOUT THE
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Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship,
providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable
features, including expert introductions by leading authorities,
helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for
further study, and much more.
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