UID:
almafu_9959237127702883
Format:
1 online resource (442 p.)
ISBN:
0-8131-0945-0
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0-8131-4825-1
Series Statement:
Eighteenth-Century Novels by Women
Uniform Title:
Adventures of David Simple
Content:
The Adventures of David Simple (1744), Sarah Fielding's first and most celebrated novel, went through several editions, the second of which was heavily revised by her brother Henry. This edition includes Henry's ""corrections"" in an appendix. In recounting the guileless hero's search for a true friend, the novel depicts the derision with which almost everyone treats his sentimental attitudes to human nature. Acclaimed as an accurate portrait of mid-eighteenth-century London, The Adventures of David Simple sets forth some provocative feminist ideas. Also included is Fielding's much darker se
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chronology; Note on the Text; The Adventures of David Simple; Book I; Book II; Book III; Book IV; The Adventures of David Simple, Volume the Last; Book V; Book VI; Book VII; Appendices; I: Henry Fielding's Preface to the Second Edition (1744); II: Substantive Variants between the First and Second Editions; III: Emendations; IV: Thomas Stothard's Illustrations to the Novelist's Magazine Edition (1782); Notes to the Novel; Bibliography
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-322-59575-5
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8131-2055-1
Language:
English
Keywords:
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Satire.
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Bildungsromans.
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Electronic books.
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