| Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Henry Fielding Contributor(s): Wilson, Jennifer Preston (Editor), Kraft, Elizabeth (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1603292233 ISBN-13: 9781603292238 Publisher: Modern Language Association of America OUR PRICE: $80.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Modern - 18th Century |
| Dewey: 823.5 |
| LCCN: 2015024885 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.05 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - 18th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The works of Henry Fielding, though written nearly three hundred years ago, retain their sense of comedy and innovation in the face of tradition, and they easily engage the twenty-first-century student with many aspects of eighteenth-century life: travel, inns, masquerades, political and religious factions, the '45, prisons and the legal system, gender ideals and realities, social class. Part 1 of this volume, "Materials," discusses the available editions of Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones, Shamela, Jonathan Wild, and Amelia; suggests useful critical and contextual works for teaching them; and recommends helpful audiovisual and electronic resources. The essays of part 2, "Approaches," demonstrate that many of the methods and models used for one novel--the romance tradition, Fielding's legal and journalistic writing, his techniques as a playwright, the ideas of Machiavelli--can be adapted to others. |
Contributor Bio(s): Kraft, Elizabeth: - Elizabeth Kraft is professor of English at the University of Georgia. She is author of Character and Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century Comic Fiction (1992), Laurence Sterne Revisited (1996), and Women Novelists and the Ethics of Desire 1684-1814 (2008). She has edited and coedited works by Charlotte Smith, Anna Letitia Barbauld, and Samuel Richardson. Wilson, Jennifer Preston: -Jennifer Preston Wilson is associate professor at Appalachian State University. She is the author of the essays �Clarissa The Nation Misrul�d� (2003), �`One Has Got All the Goodness, and the Other All the Appearance of It� The Development of Darcy in Pride and Prejudice� (2004), and �On Honor and Consequences: The Duel in The Small House at Allington� (2012). |
