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Henry Fielding : literary and theological misplacement
… selected works of the playwright and novelist, Henry Fielding (1707-54). While historical studies of Fielding have clearly yielded much of importance, a broader and less deterministic assessment concerning the latent ambivalences of this, one of the earliest novelists, has yet to be explored. …
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Henry Fielding and the Passionate Man
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Aspects of style in the novels of Henry Fielding
The prefatory essays in Fielding's two major novels Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones foreground his interest in the problems and challenges of the writing of fiction. In the narrative, he experiments with answers to the questions raised in these discursive sections. Analysis of style in these novels …
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Indirect ethical communication in the novel : Henry Fielding's Tom Jones
… assumption that man possesses truth within, Fielding developed as aesthetic which allows the ethically committed author to act upon his reader to bring this ethical potential into his consciousness. Fielding shifts the focal point of reader attention away from the level of character and …
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"Henry Fielding And The Search For History: The Historiographical Context Of ""tom Jones."""
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Fielding's Theatricalist Drama
Throughout his career as a playwright, Henry Fielding was preoccupied with the nature and proper function of theatrical artifice. Despite shifts in mode and emphasis, Fielding uses self-conscious theatricalism in his plays in three ways.
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Essential and Ubiquitous: The Inns of Eighteenth-Century British Fiction
… Analyzing works by Penelope Aubin, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, and Tobias Smollett, this work argues that the inn serves an essential function within eighteenth-century English fiction.
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Henry Fielding's use of the benevolence ethic in Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones and Amelia
… the first half of the eighteenth century. That Henry Fielding, one of the century's most successful novelists, adhered to the ethic and incorporated it in his works is clear from an examination of his journals and his fiction. In his three major novels, Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones and Amelia, …
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Factors influencing the Housebreaking and Burglary among the male youths in Songea Municipality, Tanzania
… empirical literatures of Karl Marx, UN-Habitat, Henry Fielding and Filbert. The researcher used both explanatory and descriptive research designs with the sample size population of 101 male youths from the five wards prone to housebreaking and burglary incidents in the Municipality of Songea …
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Burlesque Natural Philosophers: Eighteenth-Century Satires of Science and Social Innovation
… I then discuss three scientific parodies by Henry Fielding and how they reflected the growing presence of science in popular culture. The fourth chapter is on the surprising prevalence of science in oriental tales, and how stories like Rasselas (1759) and Vathek (1786) used the imaginative …
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Eighteenth-century fiction and the production of shame, 1680-1753
… the anti-pamelist fiction by Haywood and Henry Fielding to argue that the virtuous example exalted by Samuel Richardson’s Pamela exposes women to, rather than preserves them from, sexual danger and endorses social expectations that demand the performance of virtue and shame as a means of …
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Character on Trial: Reading and Judgement in Henry Fielding's Works
… to be placed above the Rank of a human Being - Henry Fielding, A Clear State of the Case of Elizabeth Canning, 1753. Throughout his literary and legal careers, Fielding was concerned with the difficulties of reading and judging character accurately. He saw society as being rife with deceptive …
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Satire's Liminal Space: The Conservative Function of Eighteenth-Century Satiric Drama
<p>The eighteenth century is famous for producing literary satire, primarily in verse (and later prose) form. However, during this period, a new dramatic form also arose of which satire was the controlling element. And like the writers of prose and verse satires, playwrights of dramatic satire …