The history of the adventures of Joseph Andrews

Fielding, Henry 1707-1754 (Author). Potkay, Adam, 1961- (Added Author).

Summary: "Each Longman Cultural edition consists of the complete text of a key literary work, supplemented by helpful annotations and followed by contextual materials that reveal the conversations and controversies of its historical movement." --back cover

Record details

ISBN: 9780321209375 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 0321209370 (alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
xxv, 366 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Publisher: New York : Pearson/Longman, c2008.

Content descriptions

General Note:	"The text of Joseph Andrews presented here is the third edition of March 1743" --p.x.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-366).
Formatted Contents Note:	Machine generated contents note: A note on money in Fielding's novel -- A note on Fielding's punctuation and style -- The history of the adventures of Joseph Andrews, and his friend Mr. Abraham Adams -- Contexts -- The romance tradition -- from The adventures of Theagenes and Chariclia / Heliodorus -- from The history of the renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha / Cervantes -- Le Roman Comique / Paul Scarron -- Ethics and theology -- from Sermon XVIII, "The example of Jesus in doing good" / John Tillotson -- from An inquiry concerning virtue and merit / Anthony Ashely Cooper -- from The champion (March 27, 1740) / Henry Fielding -- from "An essay on the knowledge of the characters of men" / Henry Fielding -- from Sermon I, "Of our new birth in Christ Jesus" / George Whitefield -- The psychology of laughter -- From Joseph Addison, Spectator, no. 47 (April 24,1711) -- What contemporaries said -- Review of Joseph Andrews (July 1743) / Pierre-Francois Guyot Desfontaines -- "from An essay on the new species of writing founded by Mr. Fielding / Anonymous [Francis Coventry?] -- from The cry : a new dramatic fable / Sarah Fielding.