Jonathan Wild - Brossura

Fielding, Henry

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0192804081 ISBN 13: 9780192804082

Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2003

Riassunto

'he carried Good-nature to that wonderful and uncommon Height, that he never did a single Injury to Man or Woman, by which he himself did not expect to reap some Advantage' The real-life Jonathan Wild, gangland godfather and self-styled 'Thieftaker General', controlled much of the London underworld until he was executed for his crimes in 1725. Even during his lifetime his achievements attracted attention; after his death balladeers sang of his exploits, and satirists made connections between his success and the triumph of corruption in high places. Henry Fielding built on these narratives to produce one of the greatest sustained satires in the English language. Published in 1743, at a time when the modern novel had yet to establish itself as a fixed literary form, Jonathan Wild is at the same time a brilliant black comedy, an incisive political satire, and a profoundly serious exploration of human 'greatness' and 'goodness'.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Claude Rawson is the author of many books, including Henry Fielding and the Augustan Ideal under Stress (1972), and most recentlyGod, Gulliver, and Genocide: Barbarism and the European Imagination, 1492-1945 (OUP, 2001). Linda Bree is the author ofSarah Fielding (1996), and the editor of Sarah Fielding's The Adventures of David Simple (Penguin, 2002).

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: OUP Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0192804081
• ISBN 13: 9780192804082
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 352
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile