Henry Fielding
Tom Jones

2008 | Nakladatelství MEGABOOKS CZ-Distribuční centrum Vyškov

Fielding's comic masterpiece of 1749 was immediately attacked as `A motley history of bastardism, fornication, and adultery'. Indeed, his populous novel overflows with a marvellous assortment of prudes, whores, libertines, bumpkins, misanthropes, hypocrites, scoundrels, virgins, and all too fallible humanitarians. At t…he centre of one of the most ingenious plots in English fiction stands a hero whose actions were, in 1749, as shocking as they are funny today. Expelled from Mr Allworthy's country estate for his wild temper and sexual conquests, the good-hearted foundling Tom Jones loses his money, joins the army, and pursues his beloved across Britain to London, where he becomes a kept lover and confronts the possibility of incest. Tom Jones is rightly regarded as Fielding's greatest work, and one of the first and most influential of English novels. This carefully modernized edition is based on Fielding's emended fourth edition text and offers the most thorough notes, maps, and bibliography. The introduction uses the latest scholarship to examine how Tom Jones exemplifies the role of the novel in the emerging eighteenth-century public sphere. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. Fielding's comic masterpiece of 1749 was immediately attacked as `A motley history of bastardism, fornication, and adultery'. Indeed, his populous novel overflows with a marvellous assortment of prude…s, whores, libertines, bumpkins, misanthropes, hypocrites, scoundrels, virgins, and all too fallible humanitarians. At the centre of one of the most ingenious plots in English fiction stands a hero whose actions were, in 1749, as shocking as they are funny today. Expelled from Mr Allworthy's country estate for his wild temper and sexual conquests, the good-hearted foundling Tom Jones loses his money, joins the army, and pursues his beloved across Britain to London, where he becomes a kept lover and confronts the possibility of incest. Tom Jones is rightly regarded as Fielding's greatest work, and one of the first and most influential of English novels. This carefully modernized edition is based on Fielding's emended fourth edition text and offers the most thorough notes, maps, and bibliography. The introduction uses the latest scholarship to examine how Tom Jones exemplifies the role of the novel in the emerging eighteenth-century public sphere. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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Stav:	Nová
Vazba:	Brožovaná
Počet stran:	976
Jazyk:	česky , anglicky
ISBN10:	0199536996
ISBN:	9780199536993
Vydání:	1
Vystaveno:	4. 9. 2026 20:49
Číslo položky:	1904743

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Henry Fielding

Henry Fielding byl anglický osvícenský prozaik, dramatik, publicista, právník a soudce. Pocházel z chudé, ale vážené aristokratické rodiny. Když mu byly tři roky, přestěhovala se rodina do Dorsetu. V mládí se vyznačoval nezvládnutelnou, vznětlivou a vášnivou povahou. Elitní střední školu Eton College nedostudoval, ale odnesl si z ní dobrou znalost klasických jazyků a literatury. Své vzdělání ještě prohloubil na univerzitě v Leydenu, kterou však pro dluhy nedokončil. Roku 1734 se oženil s Charlotou Cradockovou, začal v Londýně studovat práva a zintenzivnil svou novinářskou činnost. Stal se z něho osvícenský humanista, který stál společně s dalšími v opozici proti vládě Roberta Walpoleho považované mnohými za korupční. V letech 1739-1740 působil v opozičním časopise The Champion , v letech 1745-1746 vydával časopis True Patriot a v letech 1747-1748 parodoval stoupence jakobitské rebelie v časopise The Jacobite's Journal . Své volnomyšlenkářské postoje vyjádřil i v osobním životě tím, že roku 1747 si vzal za druhou manželku bývalou služebnou své první ženy, která zemřela roku 1744. Začínal jako dramatik a své hry psal pod pseudonymem Scriblerus Secundus. Vyznačují se mistrným zvládnutím tehdejších divadelních žánrů a postupů. Vytvořil dvacet pět komedií, satir, frašek a burlesek. Proslavil se zejména satirami psanými pro divadla v Drury Lane a Haymarketu, v nichž parodoval současnou tvorbu a kritiku , společenský život a politické praktiky vládnoucí whigistické strany . Od konce 30. let se věnoval také próze. Napsal romány Shamela, Josef Andrews,Jonathan Wild, Tom Jones a Amelie, ve kterých se snažil o naplnění své koncepce „komického eposu v próze“, v níž je hrdinství morálním postojem a ne jen statečným činem a v popisu lidských slabosti převažuje la...

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