Henry Fielding: Tom Jones

Acknowledgements 7
General Editor's Preface 8
Introduction 9

Part : Critical Reactions Before 192o
LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU, p. 25
ARTHUR MURPHY, p. 26 — LORD MON-
BODDO, p. 27 — SAMUEL JOHNSON p. 3o —
SAMUEL COLERIDGE. p. 32 — SIR WALTER
SCOTT, p. 35 — WILLIAM HAZLITT, p. 40 —
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY, p.
41 — G. K. CHESTERTON, p. 47

Part 2: Modern Criticism

ARNOLD KETTLE: Tom Jones 53
DOROTHY VAN GHENT: Ön Tom Jones 6o
J. MIDDLETON MURRY: In Defence of
Fielding 81
IAN WATT: Tom Jones and Clarissa io6
WILLIAM EMPSON : Tom Jones 139
C. J. RAWSON : Professor Empson's Tom
Jones 173
A. E. DYSON : Satire and Comic Irony in
Tom Jones 182


MARTIN C. BATTESTIN : Osbome's Tom
Jones: Adapting a Classic 193
RONALD PAULSON : Lucianic Satire in
Tom Jones 209
ROBERT ALTER : Ön thc Critical Dismissal
of Fielding 220
JOHN PRESTON : Plot as Irony: The
Reader's Role in Tom Jones 243

Select Bibliography 263
Noles 011 Contrilmtors 266
index 269