Routledge Revivals: Henry Fielding and the Augustan Ideal Under Stress (1972): 'Nature's Dance of Death' and Other Studies

ISBN-13: 9781138599475 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 278 str.

Claude Rawson

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Originally published in 1972, Henry Fielding and the Augustan Ideal Under Stress, focuses on the various disruptive forces in the literary culture of the Augustan period. His discussion centres on aspects of Fielding’s writing in relation to Augustan culture and civilization.

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Preface and Acknowledgements  Notes on Texts and Abbreviations  Part I: Nature’s Dance of Death  1. Gentleman and Dancing-Masters  2. Nature and the Masteries of Style in Fielding, Swift and Pope  3. Nature, Cruel Circumstance and the Rage for Order: Amelia, with Reflections on Defoe, Smollett and Orwell  Part II: Heroes, Clowns and Schoolboys: Mutations in Mock-Heroic  4. The Hero as Clown: Jonathan Wild, Felix Krull and Others  5. Epic vs. History: Jonathan Wild and Augustan Mock-Heroic  6. The World of Wild and Ubu  7. Fielding’s ‘Good’ Merchant: An Appendix on the Problem of Heartfree and Other ‘Good’ Characters in Fielding  Index

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Claude Rawson