Tom Jones, Henry Fielding - 2nd edition

This Second Edition of Fielding's perennially popular novel reprints the definitive fourth edition text (1749, dated 1750), "Carefully revis'd and corrected/By Henty Fielding, Esq;"-the last in his lifetime. The novel is fully annotated for undergraduate readers and is accompanied by a Textual Appendix and a map depicting Tom's route to London. As in the previous edition, "Contemporary Reactions" by such note-worthy commentators as Samuel Johnson, Samuel Richardson, and the Hill sisters continue to provide historical context."Criticism" is a collection of fourteen perspectives on Tom Jones spanning the years 1826-1990 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Forsyth, Kenneth Rexroth, R. S. Crane, John Preston, William Empson, Wayne C. Booth, Martin C. Battestin, Maaja A. Stewart, Eleanor N. Hutchens, Sean Shesgreen, Frederick W. Hilles, and Sheridan Baker. A new Chronology and an updated Selected Bibliography are also included.