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Author | : Martin C. Battestin |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2000-06-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0313033498 |
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Best remembered as the author of Joseph Andrews (1742), Tom Jones (1749) and Amelia (1751), Henry Fielding was one of the most important pioneering English novelists of the eighteenth century, and his works continue to occupy a central place in the literary canon. During the 1730s he was the most dominant playwright in London since John Dryden; and in his official capacity as a magistrate, he addressed serious social problems and invented the modern metropolitan police. This reference book makes essential information available to readers interested in Fielding, his life, and his works. The volume is organized in sections devoted to such topics as Fielding's residences; his family members and household; historical persons, including authors who influenced him; his works; themes and topics important to his writings; and characters in his plays and prose fiction. Each section contains numerous entries on particular items, and many entries provide brief bibliographical information. While the sectional organization of the volume invites the reader to explore broad areas of interest, a thorough index provides convenient alphabetical access to the entries. A brief introductory essay and chronology begin the volume, and the book concludes with an extensive bibliography.
Author | : Martin C. Battestin |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Authors, English |
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Author | : Claude Rawson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2007-03-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139827685 |
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Now best known for three great novels - Tom Jones, Joseph Andrews and Amelia - Henry Fielding (1707–54) was one of the most controversial figures of his time. Prominent first as a playwright, then as a novelist and political journalist, and finally as a justice of peace, Fielding made a substantial contribution to eighteenth-century culture, and was hugely influential in the development of the novel as a form, both in Britain and more widely in Europe. This collection of specially-commissioned essays by leading scholars describes and analyses the many facets of Fielding's work in theatre, fiction, journalism and politics. In addition it assesses his unique contribution to the rise of the novel as the dominant literary form, the development of the law, and the political and literary culture of eighteenth-century Britain. Including a chronology and guide to further reading, this volume offers a comprehensive account of Fielding's life and work.
Author | : Claude Julien Rawson |
Publisher | : London ; Boston : Routledge and Kegan Paul |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Download Henry Fielding and the Augustan Ideal Under Stress: "Nature's Dance of Death" and Other Studies Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Martin C. Battestin |
Publisher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2000-06-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Best remembered as the author of Joseph Andrews (1742), Tom Jones (1749) and Amelia (1751), Henry Fielding was one of the most important pioneering English novelists of the eighteenth century, and his works continue to occupy a central place in the literary canon. During the 1730s he was the most dominant playwright in London since John Dryden; and in his official capacity as a magistrate, he addressed serious social problems and invented the modern metropolitan police. This reference book makes essential information available to readers interested in Fielding, his life, and his works. The volume is organized in sections devoted to such topics as Fielding's residences; his family members and household; historical persons, including authors who influenced him; his works; themes and topics important to his writings; and characters in his plays and prose fiction. Each section contains numerous entries on particular items, and many entries provide brief bibliographical information. While the sectional organization of the volume invites the reader to explore broad areas of interest, a thorough index provides convenient alphabetical access to the entries. A brief introductory essay and chronology begin the volume, and the book concludes with an extensive bibliography.
Author | : John Richetti |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1996-09-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139825046 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In the past twenty years our understanding of the novel's emergence in eighteenth-century Britain has drastically changed. Drawing on new research in social and political history, the twelve contributors to this Companion challenge and refine the traditional view of the novel's origins and purposes. In various ways each seeks to show that the novel is not defined primarily by its realism of representation, but by the new ideological and cultural functions it serves in the emerging modern world of print culture. Sentimental and Gothic fiction and fiction by women are discussed, alongside detailed readings of work by Defoe, Swift, Richardson, Henry Fielding, Sterne, Smollett, and Burney. This multifaceted picture of the novel in its formative decades provides a comprehensive and indispensable guide for students of the eighteenth-century British novel, and its place within the culture of its time.
Author | : Henry Fielding |
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Release | : 1767 |
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Download The life of Henry Fielding, chiefly extracted from a work entitled, The Companion to the Play-House, and the reviews and magazines for 1764. Love in several masques. The temple beau. The author's farce. The lottery Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Adrian Poole |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 481 |
Release | : 2009-12-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139828118 |
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In this Companion, leading scholars and critics address the work of the most celebrated and enduring novelists from the British Isles (excluding living writers): among them Defoe, Richardson, Sterne, Austen, Dickens, the Brontës, George Eliot, Hardy, James, Lawrence, Joyce, and Woolf. The significance of each writer in their own time is explained, the relation of their work to that of predecessors and successors explored, and their most important novels analysed. These essays do not aim to create a canon in a prescriptive way, but taken together they describe a strong developing tradition of the writing of fictional prose over the past 300 years. This volume is a helpful guide for those studying and teaching the novel, and will allow readers to consider the significance of less familiar authors such as Henry Green and Elizabeth Bowen alongside those with a more established place in literary history.
Author | : Thomas Keymer |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 542 |
Release | : 2004-06-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139826719 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1740–1830 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This 2004 volume offers an introduction to British literature that challenges the traditional divide between eighteenth-century and Romantic studies. Contributors explore the development of literary genres and modes through a period of rapid change. They show how literature was shaped by historical factors including the development of the book trade, the rise of literary criticism and the expansion of commercial society and empire. The first part of the volume focuses on broad themes including taste and aesthetics, national identity and empire, and key cultural trends such as sensibility and the gothic. The second part pays close attention to the work of individual writers including Sterne, Blake, Barbauld and Austen, and to the role of literary schools such as the Lake and Cockney schools. The wide scope of the collection, juxtaposing canonical authors with those now gaining new attention from scholars, makes it essential reading for students of eighteenth-century literature and Romanticism.
Author | : Michael Bell |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 475 |
Release | : 2012-06-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521515041 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to European Novelists Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A survey of 25 major European novelists from Cervantes to Kundera, highlighting their contributions to the genre.