Elizabeth Kraft & Jennifer Preston Wilson 
Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Henry Fielding [EPUB ebook] 

The works of Henry Fielding, though written nearly three hundred years ago, retain their sense of comedy and innovation in the face of tradition, and they easily engage the twenty-first-century student with many aspects of eighteenth-century life: travel, inns, masquerades, political and religious factions, the ’45, prisons and the legal system, gender ideals and realities, social class.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.