Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Henry Fielding
About this ebook
Part 1 of this volume, "Materials," discusses the available editions of Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones, Shamela, Jonathan Wild, and Amelia; suggests useful critical and contextual works for teaching them; and recommends helpful audiovisual and electronic resources. The essays of part 2, "Approaches," demonstrate that many of the methods and models used for one novel-- the romance tradition, Fielding's legal and journalistic writing, his techniques as a playwright, the ideas of Machiavelli-- can be adapted to others.
About the author
Jennifer Preston Wilson is associate professor at Appalachian State University. She is the author of the essays "Clarissa: The Nation Misrul'd" (2003), "'One Has Got All the Goodness, and the Other All the Appearance of It': The Development of Darcy in Pride and Prejudice" (2004), and "On Honor and Consequences: The Duel in The Small House at Allington" (2012).
Elizabeth Kraft is professor of English at the University of Georgia. She is author of Character and Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century Comic Fiction (1992), Laurence Sterne Revisited (1996), and Women Novelists and the Ethics of Desire 1684-1814 (2008). She has edited and coedited works by Charlotte Smith, Anna Letitia Barbauld, and Samuel Richardson.
