Henry Fielding

Fielding, Henry - 1707–54, English novelist and dramatist. Born of a distinguished family, he was educated at Eton and studied law at Leiden. Settling in London in 1729, he began writing comedies, farces, and burlesques, the most notable being Tom Thumb (1730), and two satires, Pasquin (1736) and The Historical Register for 1736 (1737), which attacked the Walpole government and provoked the Licensing Act of 1737. This act, setting up a censorship of the stage, ended Fielding's dramatic career and turned him to the less inhibited form of the novel. In that genre he achieved his greatest success, beginning with his first novel, Joseph Andrews (1742), which started simply as a burlesque of Samuel Richardson's sentimental novel Pamela but developed into a great comic creation. He followed with Jonathan Wild (1743), the history of a superman of crime, which has been called the most sustained piece of irony in English. His masterpiece is Tom Jones (1749), a novel recounting the wild comic adventures of the good-hearted though highly fallible foundling, Tom Jones. In Tom and his guardian, Squire Allworthy, Fielding presents his concept of the ideal man, one in whom goodness and charity are combined with common sense. Because of its memorable characters and episodes, the brilliance of its plotting, and the generosity of its moral vision, Tom Jones is considered one of the greatest of English novels. Amelia (1751), his last novel, is a somewhat sentimental story about a young wife's devotion to her feckless husband, in which Fielding exposes numerous social evils of his day. Fielding had begun his serious study of law in 1737 and in 1740 was called to the bar. After spending several years as a political journalist, he was appointed justice of the peace for Westminster in 1748 and for Middlesex in 1749. A fearless and honest magistrate, he worked arduously in the administration of justice and the prevention of crime. Broken in health, he resigned his office in 1753 and the following year sailed for Portugal, where he died. His last work was the amusing journal Voyage to Lisbon (1755).

See biographies by W. L. Cross (3 vol., 1918, repr. 1963) and F. H. Duddon (1952, repr. 1966); studies by M. Johnson (1961), R. Alter (1969), R. Paulson, ed. (1962 and 1971), P. Lewis (1987), and A. J. Rivero (1989).

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A Henry Fielding Companion
by Martin C. Battestin. 333 pgs.

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Best known as the author of Joseph Andrews (1742), Tom Jones (1749), and Amelia (1751), Henry Fielding was one of the most important pioneering English novelists, and his works continue to hold a central place in the literary canon. This reference book is a comprehensive guide to his life and writings. The volume is organized in several broad sections devoted to his residences, family and household, historical figures and literary influences, works, themes, and characters. Each section provides entries for individual items, many of which are accompanied by bibliographical references. The volume begins with a brief introductory essay and chronology and concludes with extensive bibliographical material. The sectional organization of the book invites study of particular aspects of Fielding's career, while an index provides convenient alphabetical access to the entries.

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Introduction

Abbreviations

Chronology

Residences

Family and Household

Others in the Life

Works by Fielding

Works Probably by Fielding

Letters

Manuscripts

Themes and Topics

Characters in the Plays and Fiction

Works Cited

Bibliography

Index

About the Author
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The Novels of Fielding (literary criticism)
by Aurelien Digeon. 255 pgs.

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FOREWORD TO THE ENGLISH EDITION

CONTENTS

Chapter I: BRIEF ACCOUNT OF FIELDING'S LIFE

Chapter II: JOSEPH ANDREWS

Chapter III: JONATHAN WILD THE GREAT (AND THE MISCELLANIES)

Chapter IV: TOM JONES

Chapter V: AMELIA

Chapter VI: CONCLUSION: FIELDING'S CONCEPTION OF THE NOVEL

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Tom Jones
by Henry Fielding, John Bender, Simon Stern. 920 pgs.

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Fielding's comic masterpiece of 1749 was immediately attacked as `A motley history of bastardism, fornication, and adultery'. Indeed, his populous novel overflows with a marvellous assortment of prudes, whores, libertines, bumpkins, misanthropes, hypocrites, scoundrels, virgins, and all too fallible humanitarians. At the centre of one of the most ingenious plots in English fiction stands a hero whose actions were, in 1749, as shocking as they are funny today. Expelled from Mr Allworthy's country estate for his wild temper and sexual conquests, the good-hearted foundling Tom Jones loses his money, joins the army, and pursues his beloved across Britain to London, where he becomes a kept lover and confronts the possibility of incest. Tom Jones is rightly regarded as Fielding's greatest work, and one of the first and most influential of English novels. This carefully modernized edition is based on Fielding's emended fourth edition text and offers the most thorough notes, maps, and bibliography. The introduction uses the latest scholarship to examine how Tom Jones exemplifies the role of the novel in the emerging eighteenth-century public sphere.

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A CHRONOLOGY OF HENRY FIELDING

PART I

Chapter I The Introduction to the Work, or Bill of Fare to the Feast

Chapter II A Short Description of Squire Allworthy, and a Fuller Account of Miss Bridget Allworthy, His Sister

Chapter III An odd accident which befell Mr Allworthy at his return home. The decent

Chapter IV The reader's neck brought into danger by a description, his escape, and the great condescension of Miss Bridget Allworthy

Chapter V Containing a few common matters, with a very uncommon observation upon them<

Chapter VI Mrs. Deborah is introduced into the parish with a simile. A short account of Jenny Jones, with the difficulties and discouragements which may attend young women in the pursuit of learning

Chapter VII Containing such grave matter that the reader cannot laugh once through the whole chapter, unless peradventure he should laugh at the author

Chapter VIII A dialogue between Mesdames Bridget and Deborah, containing more amusement, but less instruction, than the former

Chapter IX Containing Matters Which Will Surprise the Reader

Chapter X The Hospitality of Allworthy; with a Short Sketch of the Characters of Two Brothers, a Doctor and a Captain, Who Were Entertained by That Gentleman

Chapter XI Containing many rules, and some examples, concerning falling in love; descriptions of beauty, and other more prudential inducements to matrimony

Chapter XII Containing what the reader may, perhaps, expect to find in it

Chapter XIII Which concludes the first book, with an instance of ingratitude, which we hope will appear unnatural

Chapter I Showing What Kind of a History This Is; What It is Like, and What It is Not Like

Chapter II Religious Cautions Against Showing Too Much Favour to Bastards; and a Great Discovery Made by Mrs Deborah Wilkins

Chapter III The description of a domestic government founded upon rules directly contrary to those of Aristotle

Chapter IV Containing One of the Most Bloody Battles, or Rather Duels, That Were Ever Recorded in Domestic History

Chapter V Containing Much Matter to Exercise the Judgment and Reflection of the Reader

Chapter VI The trial of Partridge, the schoolmaster, for incontinency; the evidence of his wife; a short reflection

Chapter VII A short sketch of that felicity which prudent couples may extract from hatred; with a short apology for those people who overlook imperfections in their friends

Chapter VIII A Receipt* to Regain the Lost Affections of a Wife, Which Hath Never Been Known, to Fail in the Most Desperate Cases

Chapter IX A Proof of the Infallibility of the Foregoing Receipt, in the Lamentations of the Widow; with Other Suitable Decorations of Death, Such as Physicians, &c., and an Epitaph in the True Style

Chapter I Containing little or nothing

Chapter II The Hero of This Great History Appears with Very Bad Omens. a Little Tale of So Low a Kind That Some May Think It Not Worth Their Notice. a Word or Two Concerning a Squire, and More Relating to a Gamekeeper and a Schoolmaster

Chapter III The Character of Mr Square the Philosopher, and of Mr Thwackum the Divine; with a Dispute Concerning -----

Chapter IV Containing a necessary apology for the author; and a childish incident, which perhaps requires an apology likewise

Chapter V The opinions of the divine and the philosopher concerning the two boys; with some reasons for their opinions, and other matters

Chapter VI Containing a Better Reason Still for the Before-Mentioned Opinions

Chapter VII In Which the Author Himself Makes His Appearance on the Stage

Chapter VIII A childish incident, in which, however, is seen a good-natured disposition in Tom Jones

Chapter IX Containing an incident of a more heinous kind, with the comments of Thwackum and Square

Chapter X In which Master Blifil and Jones appear in different lights

Chapter I Containing Five Pages of Paper

Chapter II A Short Hint of What We Can Do in the Sublime, and a Description of Miss Sophia Western

Chapter III Wherein the History Goes Back to Commemorate a Trifling Incident That Happened Some Years Since; but Which, Trifling as It Was, Had Some Future Consequences

Chapter IV Containing Such Very Deep and Grave Matters That Some Readers, Perhaps, May Not Relish It

Chapter V Containing matter accommodated to every taste

Chapter VI An Apology for the Insensibility of Mr Jones to All the Charms of the Lovely Sophia; in Which Possibly We May, in a Considerable Degree, Lower His Character in the Estimation of Those Men of Wit and Gallantry Who Approve the Heroes in Most of Our Modern Comedies

Chapter VII Being the Shortest Chapter in This Book

Chapter VIII A battle sung by the muse in the Homerican style, and which none but the classical reader can taste

Chapter IX Containing matter of no very peaceable colour

Chapter X A story told by Mr. Supple, the curate

Chapter XI The narrow escape of Molly Seagrim, with some observations for which we have been forced to dive pretty deep into nature

Chapter XII Containing much clearer matters; but which flowed from the same fountain with those in the preceding chapter

Chapter XIII A dreadful accident which befell Sophia. The gallant behaviour of Jones, and the more dreadful consequence of that behaviour to the young lady; with a short digression in favour of the female sex

Chapter XIV The arrival of a surgeon. His operations, and a long dialogue between Sophia and her maid

Chapter I Of the Serious in Writing, and for What Purpose It is Introduced

Chapter II In Which Mr Jones Receives Many Friendly Visits During His Confinement; with Some Fine Touches of the Passion of Love, Scarce Visible to the Naked Eye

Chapter II Which all who have no heart will think to contain much ado about nothing

Chapter IV A Little Chapter, in Which is Contained a Little Incident

Chapter V A Very Long Chapter, Containing a Very Great Incident

Chapter VI By comparing which with the former, the reader may possibly correct some abuse which he hath formerly been guilty of, in the application of the word LOVE

Chapter VII In which Mr Allworthy appears on a sick-bed

Chapter VIII Containing matter rather natural than pleasing

Chapter IX Which, among other things, may serve as a comment on that saying of Aeschines

Chapter X Showing the truth of many observations of Ovid, and of other more grave writers, who have proved, beyond contradiction, that wine is often the forerunner of incontinency

Chapter XI In which a simile in Mr Pope's period of a mile

Chapter XII In which is seen a more moving spectacle than all the blood in the bodies

Chapter I Of Love

Chapter II The Character of Mrs Western. Her Great Learning and Knowledge of the World, and an Instance of the Deep Penetration Which She Derived from Those Advantages

Chapter III Containing two defiances to the critics

Chapter IV Containing sundry curious matters

Chapter V In which is related what passed between Sophia and her aunt

Chapter VI Containing a Dialogue Between Sophia and Mrs Honour, Which May a Little Relieve Those Tender Affections Which the Foregoing Scene May Have Raised in the Mind of a Good-Natured Reader

Chapter VII A Picture of Formal Courtship in Miniature, as It Always Ought to Be Drawn, and a Scene of a Tenderer Kind, Painted at Full Length

Chapter VIII The meeting between Jones and Sophia

Chapter IX Being of a much more tempestuous kind than the former

Chapter X In which Mr Western visits Mr Allworthy

Chapter XI A short chapter; but which contains sufficient matter to affect the good-natured reader

Chapter XII Containing love-letters, &c

Chapter XIII The behaviour of Sophia on the present occasion; which none of her sex will blame, who are capable of behaving in the same manner. And the discussion of a knotty point in the court of conscience

Chapter XIV A short chapter, containing a short dialogue between Squire Western and his sister

PART II

Chapter I A Comparison Between the World and the Stage

Chapter II Containing a Conversation Which Mr Jones W with Himself

Chapter II Containing several dialoguesf

Chapter IV A picture of a country gentlewoman taken from the life

Chapter V The Generous Behaviour of Sophia Towards Her Aunt

Chapter VI Containing Great Variety of Matter

Chapter VII A strange resolution of Sophia, and a more strange stratagem of Mrs Honou

Chapter VIII Containing scenes of altercation, of no very uncommon kind

Chapter IX The wise demeanour of Mr Western in the character of a magistrate

Chapter X Containing several matters, natural enough perhaps, but LOW

Chapter XI The adventure of a company of soldiers

Chapter XII The adventure of a company of officers

Chapter XIII Containing the great address of the landlady, the great learning of a surgeon, and the solid skill in casuistry of the worthy lieutenant

Chapter XIV A most dreadful chapter indeed; and which few readers ought to venture upon in an evening, especially when alone

Chapter XV The conclusion of the foregoing adventure

Chapter I A wonderful long chapter concerning the marvellous

Chapter II In Which the Landlady Pays a Visit to Mr Jones

Chapter III In Which the Surgeon Makes His Second Appearance

Chapter IV In which is introduced one of the pleasantest barbers that was ever recorded in history, the barber of Bagdad, or he in Don Quixote

Chapter V A dialogue between Mr Jones and the barber

Chapter VI In which more of the talents of Mr Benjamin will appear, as well as who this extraordinary was

Chapter VII Containing better reasons than any which have yet appeared for the conduct of Partridge; an apology for the weakness of Jones; and some farther anecdotes concerning my landlady

Chapter VIII Jones arrives at Gloucester, and goes to the bell; the character of that house, and of a pettifogger which he there meets with

Chapter IX Containing Several Dialogues Between Jones and Partridge, Concerning Love, Cold, Hunger, and Other Matters; with the Lucky and Narrow Escape of Partridge, as He Was on the Very Brink of Making a Fatal Discovery to His Friend

Chapter X In Which Our Travellers Meet with a Very Extraordinary Adventure

Chapter XI In which the Man of the Hill begins to relate his history<

Chapter XII In which the Man of the Hill continues his history

Chapter XIII In which the foregoing story is farther continued

Chapter XIV In Which the Man of the Hill Concludes His History

Chapter XV A Brief History of Europe. and a Curious Discourse Between Mr Jones and the Man of the Hill

Chapter I Of Those Who Lawfully May, and of Those Who May Not, Write Such Histories as This

Chapter II Containing a Very Surprising Adventure Indeed, Which Mr Jones Met with in His Walk with the Man of the Hill

Chapter III The Arrival of Mr Jones, with His Lady at the Inn; with a Very Full Description of the Battle of Upton

Chapter IV In Which the Arrival of a Man of War Puts a Final End to Hostilities, and Causes the Conclusion of a Firm and Lasting Peace Between All Parties

Chapter V An Apology for All Heroes Who Have Good Stomachs, with a Description of a Battle of the Amorous Kind

Chapter VI A Friendly Conversation in the Kitchen, Which Had a Very Common, Though Not Very Friendly, Conclusion

Chapter VII Containing a fuller account of Mrs Waters, and by what means she came into that distressful situation from which she was rescued by Jones<

Chapter I Containing Instructions Very Necessary to Be Perused by Modern Critics

Chapter II Containing the Arrival of an Irish Gentleman, with Very Extraordinary Adventures Which Ensued at the Inn

Chapter III A dialogue between the landlady and Susan the chambermaid, proper to be read by all innkeepers and their servants; with the arrival and affable behaviour of a beautiful young lady; which may teach persons of condition how they may acquire the love of the whole world

Chapter IV Containing Infallible Nostrums for Procuring Universal Disesteem and Hatred

Chapter V Showing Who the Amiable Lady and Her Unamiable Maid Were

Chapter VI Containing, among other things, the ingenuity of Partridge, the madness of Jones, and the folly of Fitzpatrick

Chapter VII In which are concluded the adventures that happened at the inn at Upton

Chapter VIII In which the history goes backward

Chapter IX The escape of Sophia

Chapter I A Crust for the Critics

Chapter II The Adventures Which Sophia Met With, After Her Leaving Upton

Chapter III A very short chapter, in which, however, is a sun, a moon, a star, and an angel

Chapter IV The history of Mrs Fitzpatrick

Chapter V In which the history of Mrs Fitzpatrick is continued

Chapter VI In which the mistake of the landlord throws Sophia into a dreadful consternation

Chapter VII In which Mrs Fitzpatrick concludes her history

Chapter VIII A dreadful alarm in the inn, with the arrival of an unexpected friend of Mrs Fitzpatrick

Chapter IX The morning introduced in some pretty writing. A stage-coach. The civility of chambermaids. The heroic temper of Sophia. Her generosity. The return to it. The departure of the company, and their arrival at London; with some remarks for the use of travellers

Chapter X Containing a Hint or Two Concerning Virtue, and a Few More Concerning Suspicion

Chapter I Showing What is to Be Deemed Plagiarism in a Modern Author, and What is to Be Considered as Lawful Prize

Chapter III The Departure of Jones from Upton, with What Passed Between Him and Partridge on the Road

Chapter IV The Adventure of a Beggar-Man

Chapter V Containing more adventures which Mr Jones and his companion met on the road

Chapter VI From which it may be inferred that the best things are liable to be misunderstood and misinterpreted

Chapter VII Containing a remark or two of our own, and many more of the good company assembled in the kitchen

Chapter VIII In which Fortune seems to have been in a better humour

Chapter IX Containing little more than a few odd observations

Chapter X In which Mr Jones and Mr Dowling drink a bottle together

Chapter XI The Disasters Which Befell Jones on His Departure for Coventry; with the Sage Remarks of Partridge

Chapter XII Relates That Mr Jones Continued His Journey, Contrary to the Advice of Partridge, with What Happened on That Occasion

Chapter XIII A dialogue between Jones and Partridge

Chapter XIV What Happened To. Mr Jones in His Journey from St Albans

PART III

Chapter I An invocation

Chapter II What befell Mr Jones on his arrival in London

Chapter III A project of Mrs Fitzpatrick, and her visit to Lady Bellaston

Chapter IV Which Consists of Visiting

Chapter V An Adventure Which Happened to Mr Jones at His Lodgings, with Some Account of a Young Gentleman Who Lodged There, and of the Mistress of the House, and Her Two Daughters

Chapter VI What arrived while the company were at breakfast, with some hints concerning the government of daughters

Chapter VII Containing the whole humours of a masquerade

Chapter VIII Containing a scene of distress, which will appear very extraordinary to most of our readers<

Chapter IX Which treats of matters of a very different kind from those in the preceding chapter

Chapter X A Chapter Which, Though Short, May Draw Tears from Some Eyes

Chapter XI In Which the Reader Will Be Surprised

Chapter XII In which the thirteenth book is concluded

Chapter I an Essay to Prove That an Author Will Write the Better for Having Some Knowledge of the Subject on Which He Writes

Chapter II Containing Letters and Other Matters Which Attend Amours

Chapter III Containing various matters

Chapter IV Which we hope will be very attentively perused by young people of both sexes

Chapter V A short account of the history of Mrs Miller

Chapter VI Containing a scene which we doubt not will affect all our readers

Chapter VII The interview between Mr Jones and Mr Nightingale

Chapter VIII What passed between Jones and old Mr Nightingale; with the arrival of a person not yet mentioned in this history

Chapter IX Containing strange matters

Chapter X A short chapter, which concludes the book

Chapter I Too Short to Need a Preface

Chapter II In Which is Opened a Very Black Design Against Sophia

Chapter IV By which it will appear how dangerous an advocate a lady is when she applies her eloquence to an ill purpose

Chapter VI By what means the Squire came to discover his daughter

Chapter VII In which various misfortunes befall poor Jones

Chapter VIII Short and sweet

Chapter IX Containing love-letters of several sorts

Chapter X Consisting Partly of Facts, and Partly of Observations Upon Them

Chapter XI Containing Curious but Not Unprecedented Matter

Chapter XII A discovery made by Partridge

Chapter I Of Prologues

Chapter II A Whimsical Adventure Which Befell the Squire, with the Distressed Situation of Sophia

Chapter III What happened to Sophia during her confinement

Chapter IV In which Sophia is delivered from her confinement

Chapter VI In which the history is obliged to look back

Chapter VII In which Mr Western pays a visit to his sister, in company with Mr Blifil

Chapter VIII Schemes of Lady Bellaston for the ruin of Jones

Chapter IX In which Jones pays a visit to Mrs Fitzpatrick

Chapter X The consequence of the preceding visit

Chapter I Containing a Portion of Introductory Writing

Chapter II The Generous and Grateful Behaviour of Mrs Miller

Chapter III The arrival of Mr Western, with some matters concerning the paternal authority

Chapter IV An extraordinary scene between Sophia and her aunt

Chapter V Mrs Miller and Mr Nightingale visit Jones in the prison

Chapter VI In which Mrs Miller pays a visit to Sophia

Chapter VII A Pathetic Scene Between Mr Allworthy and Mrs Miller

Chapter VIII Containing Various Matters

Chapter IX What happened to Mr Jones in the prison

Chapter I A Farewell to the Reader

Chapter II Containing a Very Tragical Incident

Chapter III Allworthy Visits Old Nightingale; with a Strange Discovery That He Made on That Occasion

Chapter V in Which the History is Continued

Chapter VI In Which the History is Farther Continued

Chapter VII Continuation of the history

Chapter IX A further continuation

Chapter X Wherein the History Begins to Draw Towards a Conclusion

Chapter XI The History Draws Never to a Conclusion

Chapter XII Approaching still nearer to the end

Chapter XIII The last In which the history is concluded

EXPLANATORY NOTES
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The Embodiment of Characters: The Representation of Physical Experience on Stage and in Print, 1728-1749 (Chap. 5 "Who She Was and What She Was: Female Characters and Physical Experience in Tom Jones")
by Jones Deritter. 180 pgs.

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New Cultural Studies

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Acknowledgments

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Introduction

1. Life Among the "Otamys": Gender and Demography In The Beggar's Opera

2. "The Storm That Lust Began Must End In Blood": the Physical Economy Of The London Merchant

3. "Not the Person She Conceived Me": The Public Identities Of Charlotte Charke

4. "So Much Written About What Deserves Not the Least Consideration": Performance and Physical Experience In Clarissa

5. Who She Was and What She Was: Female Characters and Physical Experience in Tom Jones

Postscript

Notes

Works Cited

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The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding (Chap. VIII "Fielding and the Epic Theory of the Novel," and Chap. IX "Fielding as Novelist: 'Tom Jones'")
by Ian Watt. 319 pgs.

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Chapter I: Realism and the Novel Form

Chapter II: The Reading Public and the Rise of the Novel

Chapter III: 'Robinson Crusoe', Individualism and the Novel

Chapter IV: Defoe as Novelist: 'Moll Flanders'

Chapter V: Love and the Novel: 'Pamela'

Chapter VI: Private Experience and the Novel

Chapter VII: Richardson as Novelist: 'Clarissa'

Chapter VIII: Fielding and the Epic Theory of the Novel

Chapter IX: Fielding as Novelist: 'tom Jones'

Chapter X: Realism and the Later Tradition: A Note

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Trials and the Shaping of Identity in Tom Jones, in Studies in the Novel
by John E. Loftis. 20 pgs.

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The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great: And a Journey from This World to the Next
by Henry Fielding. 338 pgs.

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The History of the LIfe of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great

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A Journey from This World to the Next

Introduction

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The Making of Jonathan Wild: A Study in the Literary Method of Henry Fielding
by William Robert Irwin. 160 pgs.

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Chapter One Biographical and Historical Background

Chapter Two The Ethical Problem

Chapter Three Literary Forms and Traditions

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The Grub-Street Opera
by Henry Fielding, Edgar V. Roberts. 164 pgs.

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Regents Restoration Drama Series

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Introduction

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The Grub-Street Opera

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Act III

Appendix A: The Revisions

Appendix B: The Music

Appendix C: Chronology
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Grub Street and the Ivory Tower: Literary Journalism and Literary Scholarship from Fielding to the Internet (Chap. 1 "Fielding, Grub Street, and Canary Wharf")
by Jeremy Treglown, Bridget Bennett. 294 pgs.

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Literary criticism has been called a story of reading. In what conditions have the best critical stories been told? From Jenny Uglow's account of literary journalism in the world of Henry Fielding to Marjorie Perloff's praise for the impact of the Internet on poetry publishing and reviewing, Grub Street and the Ivory Tower gives lively case-histories of the commercial and institutional contexts of writing about writing, with an emphasis on the vexed but at best mutually beneficial relationship between journalism and literary scholarship. Topics include the traffic between universities and the wider literary world in the `long' nineteenth century; the role of Blackwood's Magazine in the First World War; Virginia Woolf's work as a literary journalist; the early days of the London Review of Books; and the contested terrain of book reviewing in contemporary Ireland. Most of the contributors are scholars who also command a non-academic readership, as reviewers and otherwise: among them Valentine Cunningham, Hermione Lee, Karl Miller, Lorna Sage, and John Sutherland.

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1: Fielding, Grub Street, and Canary Wharf

2: Coleridge and the Uses of Journalism

3: De Quincey and the Edinburgh and Glasgow University Circles

4: Journalism, Scholarship, and the University College London English Department

5: Darke Conceits: Churton Collins, Edmund Gosse, and the Professions of Criticism

6: Literature, Propaganda, and the First World War: The Case of Blackwood's Magazine

7: 'Crimes of Criticism': Virginia Woolf and Literary Journalism

8: The Times Literary Supplement in the Second World War and How to Fill Some Gaps in Modern British Cultural History

9: The Critic as Journalist: Leavis After Scrutiny

10: Saving Lives: Kenneth Tynan and the Duties of Dramatic Criticism

11: 'Between the Saxon Smile and Yankee Yawp': Problems and Contexts of Literary Reviewing in Ireland

12: What We Don'T Talk About When We Talk About Poetry: Some Aporias of Literary Journalism

13: Teachers, Writers

14: Living on Writing

Notes on Contributors

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Theatrical Fielding, in Studies in the Literary Imagination
by Thomas Lockwood. 10 pgs.

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Fielding's Burlesque Drama: Its Place in the Tradition
by Peter Lewis. 222 pgs.

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Chapter One Introduction

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The Importance of the Rehearsal

Chapter Three After Buckingham: Thomas Duffett and Other Minor Writers

NOTES

Chapter Four the Contribution of John Gay

NOTES

The Author's Farce

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Chapter Six Tom Thumb and the Tragedy of Tragedies

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Chapter Seven the Covent-Garden Tragedy

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Chapter Eight Pasquin and Tumble-Down Dick

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Chapter Nine Eurydice, the Historical Register for the Year 1736, and Eurydice Hiss'D

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Henry Fielding's Theory of the Comic Prose Epic
by Ethel Margaret Thornbury. 204 pgs.

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Chapter I: Fielding's Library

Chapter II: The General Problem of the Modern Epic

Chapter III: French Epics and Epic Theories of the Seventeenth Century

Chapter IV: FÉnÉlon, Boileau, Le Bossu, and Madame Dacier

Chapter V: Epic Theory in England, Dryden to Fielding

Chapter VI: The Definition of the Comic Prose Epic

Chapter VII: Development of Principles of Epic Structure Tom Jones

Chapter VIII: The Verisimilar and the Marvellous

Chapter IX: Fielding's Theory of Comedy

Chapter X: Conclusion

Appendix

Bibliography

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The Columbia History of the British Novel ("Fielding and the Novel at Mid-Century" begins on p. 102)
by John J. Richetti, John Bender, Deirdre David, Michael Seidel. 1066 pgs.

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What do Pamela, Shamela, and Evelina have in common? Who is Coningsby? Where is The Moonstone? When does one need A Room of One's Own? Why is it that Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit? And just how good is the British novel? These are just a few of the questions answered in The Columbia History of the British Novel. John Richetti's comprehensive history takes us from the birth of the novel in the eighteenth century through its social and culture-conscious growing pains in the nineteenth century to its angst-ridden maturity in the twentieth century. Concise, cohesive, and complementary to any collection of must-read classics, The Columbia History of the British Novel challenges and enlightens us by examining canonical writers as well as women and postcolonial novelists. Discover the origins of the novel in the "scandalous" books of Aphra Behn, Eliza Haywood, and Delarivier Manley and follow its development through Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, and Laurence Sterne against the backdrop of the novel's meteoric rise in the 1700s. Follow Frances Burney and the rise of the woman novelist, and the gothic novel as invented by Horace Walpole and perfected by Mary Shelley and Matthew Lewis. Remember remarkable reunions in Jane Austen; the bond between chivalry, Waverley, and Sir Walter Scott; the Brontes, Amelia Opie, Maria Edgeworth, and the tradition of Romantic women's fiction; Charles Dickens and the professionalization of literature; George Eliot and the novel of ideas; and Wilkie Collins and the sensation mania of the 1860s. Continue through the nineteenth century with the "Condition of England" novels of Benjamin Disraeli and Elizabeth Gaskell, Hardy's tales of class and sexualdifference, and Anglo-Indian perspectives on the empire from Rudyard Kipling and Philip Meadows Taylor. Enter the twentieth century and examine the modern novel with Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf. Then trace the anti-

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Licensing Pleasure: Literary History and the Novel in Early Modern Britain

Defoe and Early Narrative

Sex, Lies, and Invisibility: Amatory Fiction from the Restoration to Mid-Century

Richardson and His Circle

Fielding and the Novel at Mid-Century

From Swift to Smollett: The Satirical Tradition in Prose Narrative

Sterne: Comedian and Experimental Novelist

Sentimental Novels of the Later Eighteenth Century

Frances Burney and the Rise of the Woman Novelist

The Gothic Novel, 1764-1824

Novels of the 1790s: Action and Impasse

Jane Austen

Walter Scott: Narrative, History, Synthesis

A Novel of Their Own: Romantic Women's Fiction, 1790-1830

Speak What We Think: The Brontës and Women Writers

Dickens

Thackeray and the Ideology of the Gentleman

George Eliot and the Novel of Ideas

Trollope

Wilkie Collins and the Sensation Novel

Disraeli, Gaskell, and the Condition of England

Shaping Hardy's Art: Vision, Class, and Sex

The Nineteenth-Century Novel and Empire

Lewis Carroll and the Child in Victorian Fiction

The Avoidance of Naturalism: Gissing, Moore, Grand, Bennett, and Others

Rudyard Kipling to Salman Rushdie: Imperialism to Postcolonialism

Bennett, Wells, and the Persistence of Realism

Joseph Conrad

D. H. Lawrence

Isherwood, Huxley, and the Thirties

James Joyce

Virginia Woolf

Forster, Ford, and the New Novel of Manners

Samuel Beckett's Postmodern Fictions

Satire between the Wars: Evelyn Waugh and Others

The Reaction against Modernism: Amis, Snow, Wilson

Sleeping with the Enemy: Doris Lessing in the Century of Destruction

Drabble to Carter: Fiction by Women, 1962-1992

The Contemporary Novel

Biographies of British Novelists

Notes on Contributors

Index
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A True-Born Englishman: Being the Life of Henry Fielding
by M. P. Willcocks. 288 pgs.

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Chapter I: The Harlequin Chamber

Chapter II Excursions and Alarums

Chapter III the Case of Miss Sarah Andrew

Chapter IV: Dèbut

Chapter V: Fielding and the Beggar's Opera

Chapter VI: Grub Street and the Author's Farce

Chapter VII: A Young Man with a Cudgel

Chapter VIII the Romance of New Sarum

Chapter IX: Fielding and Hogarth

Chapter X: Pasquin's Challenge to Folly

Chapter XI: The Tragedy of Wit Overthrown

Chapter XII: Captain Hercules Vinegar

Chapter XIII: Pamela and Shamela

Chapter XIV: The Odyssey of Parson Adams

Chapter XV: The Heart of Henry Fielding

Chapter XVI: The Doves and the Serpents

Chapter XVII: Fielding and the Fory-Five

Chapter XVIII: A Labour of Hercules

Chapter XIX: The Doomsday Book of Human Nature

Chapter XX: The Fool and the Lady

Chapter XXI: The Last Fight

Chapter XXII: The Journey's End

Epilogue: The Verdict of the Centuries

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Henry Fielding
by Elizabeth Jenkins. 106 pgs.

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