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Henry Fielding (1707-1754) : novelist, playwright, journalist, magistrate : a double anniversary tribute
- Title
- Henry Fielding (1707-1754) : novelist, playwright, journalist, magistrate : a double anniversary tribute / edited by Claude Rawson.
- Publication
- Newark : University of Delaware Press, ©2008.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | PR3457 .H458 2008 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Rawson, Claude Julien.
- Description
- 337 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "This book throws important light on the fiction, drama, and society of eighteenth-century England, as reflected in the career of one of its greatest writers, Henry Fielding (1707-1754). It explores the range of Henry Fielding's career as one of the early masters of the English novel, the leading English playwright of his day, and an influential political journalist, magistrate, and social thinker."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754 > Criticism and interpretation
- Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754 > Friends and associates
- Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754 > Political and social views
- Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754 > Influence
- Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754
- Fielding, Henry
- Friendship
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Political and social views
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Fielding from stage to page / Thomas Lockwood -- "The uncreating word" : silence and unspoken thought in Fielding's drama / Joseph Roach -- Fielding's Machiavellian moment / Thomas Keymer -- Avatars of Alexander : Jonathan Wild and the tyrant thug, from Voltaire to Brecht / Claude Rawson -- Amelia, sex, and Fielding's woman question / Simon Dickie -- Henry and Sarah Fielding : a literary relationship / Linda Bree -- Fielding, Hogarth, and evil : cruelty / Ronald Paulson -- "O, Hogarth, had I thy pencil" : delineations of an alleged friendship / Frédéric Ogée -- Poacher and gamekeeper : Fielding, the law, and the novels / Pat Rogers -- Fielding, politics, and "men of genius" / Bertrand A. Goldgar -- Was Fielding a prefeminist? / Guyonne Leduc -- Jacobites and Jacobins : Fielding's legacy in the later eighteenth-century London theater / Angela J. Smallwood -- Fielding's legacy in fiction / Robert Alter.
- ISBN
- 9780874139310
- 0874139317
- 9781611492842
- 161149284X
- LCCN
- 2007019375
- 40015404489
- OCLC
- ocn128237228
- 128237228
- SCSB-14652426
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library