Tom JonesPenguin Publishing Group, 1963 - 864 páginas Henry Fielding's Tom Jones is both one of the great comic masterpieces of English literature and a major force in the development of the novel form. By 1749, the year Tom Jones appeared, the novel was only beginning to be recognized as a potentially literary form. Samuel Richardson's novel Clarissa had appeared only the year before, and for the most part in intellectual circles prose fiction was not considered a worthy pursuit. Despite the publication by Jonathan Swift, a member of the literary elite surrounding Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, of Gulliver's Travels in 1726, the sanctioned genres of the first half of the eighteenth century were verse and drama. The novels of Daniel Defoe, seen by many as purely adventure tales, were not regarded as worthy of serious consideration. They were, however, instrumental in the development of a suitable reading public, without which Fielding probably would not have attempted any form of sustained prose fiction. |
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... tion , and swore he would never omit any opportunity through the course of his life of showing her the sincerity of his affec- tion by providing for her in a manner beyond her utmost expectation or even beyond her wishes if ever that ...
... tion , and swore he would never omit any opportunity through the course of his life of showing her the sincerity of his affec- tion by providing for her in a manner beyond her utmost expectation or even beyond her wishes if ever that ...
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... tion answered it was little to be wondered at if tragical spec- tacles made no impression on the blind ; but , for his part , he had the misfortune to know who his parents were , and con- sequently must be affected with their loss ...
... tion answered it was little to be wondered at if tragical spec- tacles made no impression on the blind ; but , for his part , he had the misfortune to know who his parents were , and con- sequently must be affected with their loss ...
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... tion some qualifications , every one of which are in a pretty high degree necessary to this order of historians . The first is genius , without a rich vein of which no study , says Horace , can avail us . By genius I would understand ...
... tion some qualifications , every one of which are in a pretty high degree necessary to this order of historians . The first is genius , without a rich vein of which no study , says Horace , can avail us . By genius I would understand ...
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Dedication | 27 |
The readers neck brought into danger by | 34 |
Containing such grave matter that the reader | 42 |
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