James F. Smith Boeken

Focusing on the Cherokee land lottery, this work features a numerical list of fortunate participants in the lottery, providing insight into land distribution among Native Americans. It is part of the Sabin Americana collection, which documents over 400 years of history in the Americas, covering various topics including exploration, military actions, and cultural aspects. The book offers high-quality digital scans of original works, making it accessible to a wide audience, including libraries and scholars interested in historical accounts.

This reprint preserves the original text from 1882, offering readers a glimpse into the past with its historical context and themes. The book showcases the writing style and societal norms of its time, making it a valuable resource for those interested in literature and history. Its timeless narrative continues to resonate, inviting both new readers and those familiar with the classic to explore its enduring relevance.

Using close rhetorical analysis, Smith argues that Fielding's narrative method in Tom Jones creates an ironic tension between the intrusive narrator and the highly artificial plot. Fielding's narrator employs a rhetoric of deception to maintain the central secret of Tom's birth around which his plot is structured. Such an ironic narrative method ultimately reveals the reader's dependence on conventional assumptions in interpretation and argues for epistemological prudence. Smith questions conventional readings of Tom Jones and shows Fielding's comic novel to be both darker and more philosophical than generally assumed.