I have just read (for the second time), Henry Fielding's Tom Jones for my reading group.
In myWordsworth Classics edition there is a fifteen page introduction written byDoreen Roberts, Rutherford College. University of Kent at Canterbury.
Here is a typical example of some of the worst writing which appears in similar vein throughout the whole piece. I am tempted to use the word "unintelligible" but that means impossible to understand, and to be reluctantly charitable it may be possible to make some sense of this academic self indulgence but not by me.
Even at the basic level of writing clear English, this extract is inexcusably all one sentence.
I have read this again several times and I acknowledge it is understandable, but there are too many different concepts to absorb and mix in one sentence. I still maintain that this is poor writing that gives no consideration for the reader.
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