LITERATURE QUESTIONS
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Detailed explanation-1: -The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, often known simply as Tom Jones, is a comic novel by English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding. It is a Bildungsroman and a picaresque novel . It was first published on 28 February 1749 in London and is among the earliest English works to be classified as a novel.
Detailed explanation-2: -Tom Jones is one of the earliest English novels, and was hugely popular when it was first published in 1749. It tells the story of the foundling Tom and his journey towards adulthood and marriage.
Detailed explanation-3: -About the Author Henry Fielding (1707-1754) began his career as a novelist in 1740 with Shamela (written as a negative response to Richardson’s Pamela). The following year, he published Joseph Andrews, with which he anticipates his masterpiece, Tom Jones.
Detailed explanation-4: -One of his major contribution to the English novel was a sense of structure to its development. With his Tom Jones, Fielding introduced a new kind of fictional hero – a good hearted, well intentioned young man with ordinary human weakness, one who yields to temptation with women and to make errors in judgement.
Detailed explanation-5: -His first success was an anonymous parody of that novel, called Shamela. This follows the model of Tory satirists of the previous generation, notably Swift and Gay. Fielding followed this with Joseph Andrews (1742), an original work supposedly dealing with Pamela’s brother, Joseph.