History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews, The, A Longman Cultural Edition

From Longman's Cultural Editions series, The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews, edited by Andrew Potkay, presents Henry Fielding's classic work along with a critical introduction and contextual materials on and from the period.  The text presented here is the third edition of March 1743, the most reliable and authoritative edition to appear in Fielding's time.  

 

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List of Illustrations

About This Edition

Introduction

            A Note on Money in Fielding’s Novel

            A Note on Fielding’s Punctuation and Style

 

Henry Fielding: Table of Dates

 

 

The History of the Adventures of JOSEPH ANDREWS, and of his Friend Mr. Abraham Adams

 

Preface

Table of Contents

Book 1

Book 2

Book 3

Book 4

 

Contexts

 

            The Romance Tradition

 

HELIODORUS, from The Adventures of Theagenes and Chariclia

CERVANTES, from The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha

            “Of Don Quixote’s first Sally"

            On “Books of Knight-Errantry” and the Epic in Prose

PAUL SCARRON, from Le Roman Comique

 

            Ethics and Theology

 

JOHN TILLOTSON, from Sermon XVIII, “The Example of Jesus in Doing Good"

ANTHONY ASHELY COOPER, third earl of SHAFTESBURY, from An Inquiry concerning Virtue and Merit

HENRY FIELDING, from The Champion (March 27, 1740)

HENRY FIELDING, from Essay on the Knowledge of the Characters of Men

GEORGE WHITEFIELD, from Sermon, “Of our New Birth in Christ Jesus"

 

            The Psychology of Laughter

 

From JOSEPH ADDISON, Spectator no. 47 (April 24, 1711)

 

            What Contemporaries Said

 

PIERRE-FRANCOIS GUYOT DESFONTAINES, review of Joseph Andrews (July 1743)

FRANCIS COVENTRY, from An Essay on the New Species of Writing founded by Mr. Fielding

SARAH FIELDING, from The Cry: A New Dramatic Fable

JAMES BOSWELL, from The Life of Dr. Johnson

 

Further Reading