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Henry Fielding
Fielding, Henry
Fielding, Henry (1707–54) English novelist and playwright. During the 1730s, he wrote a number of satirical plays, such as
Pasquin (1736). His first work of fiction,
An Apology for the Life of Mrs Shamela Andrews (1741), was a parody of Samuel
Richardson's Pamela (1740).
Joseph Andrews (1742) was his first
novel. Fielding strengthened the novel genre through his depiction of character and narrative sophistication. His masterpiece is the picaresque novel
Tom Jones (1749). Fielding was responsible for the foundation of Britain's first organized police force, the Bow Street Runners.
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Henry Fielding's Improbable Life
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 7/15/1990; ; 700+ words
; HENRY FIELDING: A Life By Martin C. Battestin with...researched biography gives us a "new" Henry Fielding-disconcertingly different from the...humored one. Like most great novelists, Henry Fielding (1707-54) was born on a social cusp...
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Henry Fielding's Novels and the Classical Tradition.
Magazine article from: Studies in the Novel; 12/22/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...pp. $ 34.50. Although Fielding's use of the classics has...many Scholarly inquiries, Henry Fielding's Novels and the Classical...Lucianic influence advanced in Henry Knight Miller's Essays on Fielding's "Miscellanies": A...
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Fielding's rapprochement with Walpole in late 1741.(Henry Fielding, Horace Walpole)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Philological Quarterly; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...much brazen ingenuity and gusto, as Henry Fielding. The Great Man figures variously in...formed the crux in all accounts of [Fielding's] politics." (7) In his History of Henry Fielding (1918), Wilbur L. Cross concedes...
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The Life of Henry Fielding.(Review)
Magazine article from: Criticism; 9/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; The Life of Henry Fielding by Ronald Paulson. Oxford and Malden...continuity of Fielding the man with Fielding the writer. Paulson's new biography...predecessor, Martin Battestin's Henry Fielding, A Life, which appeared in 1989...
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Early poems by - and not by - Fielding. (Henry Fielding)
Magazine article from: Philological Quarterly; 3/22/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...advertisements,(1) the authorial "Mr. Fielding" named there has been taken to be Henry Fielding--really the only plausible candidate...Appearance of the Beggars Opera, by the late Henry Fielding, Esq. Author of Tom Jones, &c...
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Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Richardson, and the Reception of Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote in the Popular Press.
Magazine article from: ANQ; 6/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...is the informal networking that took place among Henry Fielding, Johnson, Richardson, and Millar--the three major...Endorsements from Johnson in the Gentleman's Magazine and Henry Fielding in the Covent-Garden Journal gave The Female Quixote...
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Narrative authority, critical complicity: the case of 'Jonathan Wild.' (novel by Henry Fielding)(Making Genre: Studies in the Novel or Something Like It, 1684-1762)
Magazine article from: Studies in the Novel; 6/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...century critical reception of Henry Fielding's The History of the Life of...difficult book. Those who warm to Fielding's lively presentation of mid...thesis-novel. Those who enjoy Fielding's verbal irony in his most famous...
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"Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me": politeness in Pride and Prejudice, Henry Fielding's "An Essay on Conversation" and Tom Jones.(Conference Papers)
Magazine article from: Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; HENRY FIELDING'S "An Essay on Conversation," first...eighteenth-century conduct book tradition. Fielding sees the art of conversation as integral...laugh" (PP 57), she usually follows Fielding's advice ("An Essay on Conversation...
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Henry Fielding and the Narration of Providence: Divine Design and the Incursions of Evil.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Church History; 9/1/2002; ; 660 words
; ...49.95 cloth. Richard Rosengarten's Henry Fielding and the Narration of Providence is a thoughtful contribution to Fielding studies. Beyond its specific concerns with Fielding's major works, it adds to our understanding...
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Reading at arm's length: Fielding's contract with the reader in 'Tom Jones.' (novel by English writer Henry Fielding)(Making Genre: Studies in the Novel or Something Like It, 1684-1762)
Magazine article from: Studies in the Novel; 6/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; Academic readers of Henry Fielding's Tom Jones (1749) have sensed...demands. Such criticism attributes to Fielding a regime that restricts linear momentum...2) Other critics argue that Fielding sought to qualify readers, conferring...
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Henry Fielding
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Henry Fielding The English author and magistrate Henry Fielding (1707-1754) was one of the great novelists of the...The English novel of today was largely created by Henry Fielding and Samuel Richardson. Richardson's works, written...
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Fielding, Henry
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
FIELDING, HENRY FIELDING, HENRY (1707 – 1754), English novelist and playwright. Fielding was born 22 April 1707 at Sharpham Park, Somerset, and the family moved to East Stour in Dorset three years later. His father, Edmund...
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Hugh Henry Brackenridge
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Republic. Born in Scotland, Hugh Henry Brackenridge was brought by his parents...satirical novel owes much to Cervantes, Henry Fielding, and Laurence Sterne. In language...Newlin, The Life and Writings of Hugh Henry Brackenridge (1932), and Daniel...
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Blessed, Brian 1937–
Book article from: Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television
...Baskervilles, Weintraub, 1983. Exeter, Henry V, Samuel Goldwyn, 1989. Voice...Channel, 1995. Squire Western, Henry Fielding's Tom Jones (also known as The...in the World, BBC, 1999. King Henry VIII, The Nearly Complete and Utter...
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Tobias George Smollett
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...massive and powerful epistolary novel, Clarissa; Henry Fielding, the satirist and novelist of English manners most...personal attacks on such prominent English figures as Henry Fielding and David Garrick. Peregrine, like Roderick Random...
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