Contributor
Wilson, Jennifer Preston, 1966- editor.
ImprintNew York : The Modern Language Association of America, 2015.
Descriptionxi, 236 pages ; 24 cm.
Note:Preface to the Volume / Jennifer Preston Wilson -- PART ONE : MATERIALS. Texts for Teaching ; Visual, Audiovisual, and Electronic Resources ; Classroom Contexts / Elizabeth Kraft -- PART TWO. APPROACHES. Introduction / Jennifer Preston Wilson ; Backgrounds. Social Contexts: Politics, Law, Religion, Class, and Gender / Nicholas Hudson ; Literary Contexts: Epic, Romance, Drama, and the Novel / Nancy A. Mace ; Generic Contexts: Nonrealist Traditions of the Novel / Scott Black ; Authorial Contexts: Connections between Fielding's Novels and His Legal and Journalistic Writing / J. A. Downie ; Book History Contexts: The Visual Fielding / Leigh G. Dillard ; Joseph Andrews. Staging the Reading Play in Joseph Andrews / Joshua Grasso ; Teaching Fielding's Idea of the Novel with Joseph Andrews / Stephen C. Behrendt ; Joseph Andrews and the European Novel / Adam Potkay ; Pulling the Anglican Thread: Using Parson Adams's Torn Cassock to Teach Fielding's Complicated Art / Christopher D. Johnson ; Finding the "Mark" of the Mother: The Feminized Birth Mystery and an Approach to Teaching Fielding / Brian McCrea ; Joseph Andrews as Travel Literature / Chloe Wigston Smith ; Fielding, Print Culture, and the Pamela Media Event / Lisa Maruca ; Tom Jones. Tom Jones as the Cornerstone in the Course The English Novel through Austen / Pamela S. Bromberg ; Narrative Voice in Tom Jones / Anthony J. Hassall ; Fielding's Style / Jill Campbell ; Formalism, Historicism, and The Author's Farce: Making the Modern Author in Tom Jones / Rivka Swenson ; Sophias Smile: Reading Jenny Cameron in the Margins of Tom Jones / Eric Leuschner ; Tom Jones and the Comic Tradition / James Evans ; Fielding's Critique of Governance in Tom Jones / Elizabeth Kraft -- Shamela, Jonathan Wild, and Amelia. The Sham Spirit of the Age / Earla Wilputte ; Jonathan Wild, a Novel for all Classrooms / Manushag N. Powell ; Destined for Greatness: Hero Worship and Jonathan Wild / Carl Fisher ; Amelia on Trial / Regina Janes ; Friendship and Marriage in Amelia / George E. Haggerty ; Amelia and the "Choice of Life" Novel / Jennifer Preston Wilson.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-229) and index.
Note:"Offers pedagogical techniques for teaching Henry Fielding's novels, bringing considerations of epic, comedy, romance, religion, law, politics, class, gender, narrative voice, style, formalism, historicism, and book history into the college classroom. Includes information on editions, reference works, biographies, and online resources. Gives syllabus suggestions for undergraduate and graduate courses."-- Provided by publisher.
