Errors and Reconciliations: Marriage in the Plays and Novels of Henry Fielding

ISBN-13: 9780367666927 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 254 str.

Anaclara Castro-Santana

Opis

Henry Fielding is most well-known for his monumental novel Tom Jones. Though not necessarily common knowledge, Henry Fielding started his literary career as a dramatist and eventually transitioned to writing novels. Though vastly different in their approach and subject, there is a common thread in Fielding’s work that spanned his c

Spis treści

Section 1: Fielding’s Theatrical Productions between 1728 and 1737

Chapter 1: An Examination of Fielding’s 9 Year Dramatic Career

Chapter 2: Fielding’s Transition between Theatre and Prose Fiction

Section 2: Early Novels between 1741 and 1746

Chapter 3: Shamela

Chapter 4: Jonathan Wild

Chapter Five: The Female Husband

Section 3: Tom Jones and Amelia, Novels of Fielding’s Maturity

Chapter 6: Tom Jones

Chapter 7: Amelia

O autorze

Anaclara Castro teaches English Literature at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She obtained her PhD at the University of York, UK in 2014. She has published academic articles on Henry Fielding, Lawrence Sterne, and William Hogarth. She is interested in the relations between the theatre and the novel in the long eighteenth century.