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TOM JONES Edited by
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A COLLECTION OF CRITICAL ESSAYS BY Wayne C. Booth Empson F. R. Leavis Andrew Wright
Robert Alter William
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Jones,
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been the subject of more stimulating discussion than an>' other novel of the eighteenth centur\— the critics regarding it not as just a historical curiosity, but as a its
own
work
of art in
right.
Over ten years ago, Kingsley Amis remarked on the "Fielding revival" which, as Battestin notes, "we are, in fact, still very much in the midst of." Amis observed that Fielding's humor was "closer to our own than that of any writer before the present century" and that contemporary authors have followed him in their attempt to "combine the violent and the absurd, the grotesque and the romantic, the farcical and the horrific within a single novel." The distinguished critics in this volume offer other reasons for the popularity
Tom
Jones
now
enjoys.
For
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