Joseph Andrews With Shamela and Related Writings (Norton Critical Editions)
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (613 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393955559 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 512 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Wrong Edition" according to Danielle. Even though it says on the sticker that it is the Norton Critical Edition, I recieved a Signet Classics edition published in 1960. These are two very different editions and I had to purchase another copy of the book at my own expense.. English Lit I had to read this book for a college fiction class. I thought it wouldnt get any worse then this. However to my surprise this book was quite enjoyable in a classical kind of way! My professor said that this is supposed to be one of the first novels ever written and I was surprised that it had all the basics of a great modern read. Love,Sex,and Betr
Modern assessments are by Mark Spilka, Dick Taylor, Jr., Martin Battestin, Sheldon Sacks, Morris Golden, Brian McCrea, and Homer Goldberg. "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. This Norton Critical Edition reprints the authoritative Wesleyan text of Joseph Andrews, edited by Martin Battestin. 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 satirizedPamela and Conyer Middleton’s Dedication to the Life of Ciceroand emulatedGil Blas and selections from Don Quixote, the Roman Comique, and Le Paysan Parvenu. The
He is the author of The Art of Joseph Andrews. About the Author Homer Goldberg is Distinguished Teaching Professor of English, Emeritus, at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
He is the author of The Art of Joseph Andrews. Homer Goldberg is Distinguished Teaching Professor of English, Emeritus, at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.