History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of His Friend Mr. Abraham Adams : And, an Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews

Henry Fielding, Douglas Brooks-Davies, Tom Keymer

ISBN 10: 019283343X / ISBN 13: 9780192833433

Edité par September 1999, 1999

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• Titre: History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of His Friend Mr. Abraham Adams : And, an Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews
• Éditeur: September 1999
• Date de parution: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 019283343X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780192833433
• Reliure: Trade Paperback
• Édition: 2ème Édition
• État de l'article: Used Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
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Synopsis

'I beg as soon as you get Fielding's Joseph Andrews, I fear in Ridicule of your Pamela and of Virtue in the Notion of Don Quixote's Manner, you would send it to me by the very first Coach.' (George Cheyne in a letter to Samuel Richardson, February 1742) Both Joseph Andrews (1742) and Shamela (1741) were prompted by the success of Richardson's Pamela (1740), of which Shamela is a splendidly bawdy parody. But in Shamela Fielding also demonstrates his concern for the corruption of contemporary society, politics, religion, morality, and taste. The same themes - together with a presentation of love as charity, as friendship, and in its sexual taste - are present in Joseph Andrews, Fielding's first novel. It is a work of considerable literary sophistication and satirical verve, but its appeal lies also in its spirit of comic affirmation, epitomized in the celebrated character of Parson Adams. This revised and expanded edition follows the text of Joseph Andrews established by Martin C. Battestin for the definitive Wesleyan Edition of Fielding's works. The text of Shamela is based on the first edition, and two substantial appendices reprint the preliminary matter from Conyers Middleton's Life of Cicero and the second edition of Richardson's Pamela (both closely parodied in Shamela). A new introduction by Thomas Keymer situates Fielding's works in their critical and historical contexts.

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SHAMELA is a brilliant parody of Samuel Richardson's PAMELA, in which a virtuous servant girl long resists her master's advances and is eventually 'rewarded' with marriage. Fielding's far more spirited and sexually honest heroine, by contrast, merely uses coyness and mock modesty as techniques to catch a rich husband. JOSEPH ANDREWS, Fielding's first full-length novel, can also be seen as a response to Richardson, as the lascivious Lady Booby sets out to seduce her comically chaste servant Joseph, (himself in love with the much-put-upon Fanny Goodwill). As in Tom Jones, Fielding takes a huge cast of characters out on the road and exposes them to many colourful and often hilarious adventures.