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...Ashley Marshall Most modern scholars have taken for granted that Henry Fielding admired and sought to emulate the great “Scriblerian” satirists we consider the titans of their age. That Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, and John Gay exerted a major influence on his development is a critical...

... with the critical apparatus which Charles Lillie’s volumes so much need. ROBERTJ. ALLEN IVillinms College Comedy and Society from Conyrcve to Fielding. By JOHN LOFTIS. Stanford: Stanford Studies in Language and Literature, XIX, 1959...

.... J. A. BRYANT,JR. Duke University The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding. By IAN WATT.Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1959. Pp. 319. $1.95. This paperback edition of a book first published in England in 1957 will find...

...A. E. Dyson Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 SATIRIC AND COMIC THEORY IN RELATION TO FIELDING By A. E. DYSOK The doctrine of “ridicule as a test of truth” is a distinctively eight- eenth-century one...

... in the Fictional Imagination from Milton to Fielding. By LEOPOLDDAMROSCH, JR. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1985. x + 343 pp. $25.00. God’s Plot and Man’s Stories is a persuasive account of a topic that, though not dramatically unfamiliar, is here treated in consistently...

... investigation. MAXIMILLIANE. NOVAK University of California, Los Angeles Occasional Form: Heniy Fielding and the Chains of Circumstance. By J. PAULHUNTER. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975. xiv + 263 pp. $12.00...

... bound. I have discovered but two misprints : in for In (p. 60, line 18) and underlaid for underlay (p. 98, line 18). VIRGILB. HELTZEL Northwestern University The Making of “Jonathan Wild”: a Study in, tlzc Literary Method of Henry Fielding...

...William B. Coley Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 FIELDING, HOGARTH, AND THREE ITALIAN MASTERS By WILLIAMB. COLEY Unlike his near-contemporary Pope, Henry Fielding does not appear to have been fond of drawing upon the supposed parallels...

...Martin C. Battestin Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 1 Benjamin Boyce. The Benevolent Man: A Life of Ralph Allen of Bath . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967. xiv + 304 pp. $7.95. Malvin R. Zirker, Jr. Fielding's Social Pamphlets: A Study of “An Enquiry...

... the whole.” TRISTRAMP. COFFIN University of Pennsylvania Henry Fielding and the Language of Irony. By GLENNW. HATFLELD.Chi- cago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1968. xi + 244 pp. $7.50. Marked by the publication in the past ten...

... targets. And the integrity and intellectual rigor with which Miner has tested his beliefs make it a book which should be taken seriously. .JOAN \dTEBBER Ohio State Uniuei-sity Narrative Form in History and Fiction: Hume, Fielding...

..., as also between tlie epic Iiero arid the epic poem. Swift summed it up: “It is Homer and Virgil we rever- ence and admire, not Achilles and Aenetis.” I, for example, u~ouldsay that SLvift. atid after Iiini Hogarth and tlien Fielding, worked in a basically trav- esty mode, one wliicli...

... series and is at work on a book titled Hollowed Voices: Reformulations of the Classical Oracle in Eighteenth-Century British Print Culture . Fielding’s Fallen Oracles: Print Culture and the Elusiveness of Common Sense Laura McGrane f all the subjects Henry Fielding considered in his...

... the field has instead borrowed tools, procedures, and standards, immethodically yet retentively, from other fields it has found engaging and adaptable. Notable waves of change that have irrigated the field include, in rough historical sequence, philology, seminary education, psychology, social science...

... in 1994. She is currently puzzling over simulations of orality, framing, and canon formation in early written fairy tales. “Out in Left Field”: Charlotte Smith’s Prefaces, Bourdieu’s Categories, and the Public Sphere Elizabeth W. Harries The writing is nothing, the being...

... which we group them—a design in a web, the actual threads of which pass out beyond it. —Walter Pater, The Renaissance Copyright © 2020 by University of Washington 2020 Thinking through Poetry: Field Reports on Romantic Lyric . By Marjorie Levinson . Oxford : Oxford University...

...Vivasvan Soni Abstract Henry Fielding’s Joseph Andrews is often thought to have inaugurated a tradition of sociological observation in the novel, and it also cultivates a practice of judgment in readers. Yet the social theory that informs Fielding’s novel (Thomas Hobbes, Bernard Mandeville...

... THE FIELD ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA IN THE WAKE OF KING LEAR* By WILLIAMH. MATCHETT There are a few literary works so successful-so thorough-that they have exhausted the possibilities in the areas they have ex- plored. Each...

...Bertrand A. Goldgar Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 MYTH AND HISTORY IN FIELDING’S JOURNEY FROM THlS WORLD TO THE NEXT By BERTRANDA. GOLDGAR Fielding’sJourney was dismissed by W. E. Henley as an “odd, clever...

...Irving Ribner William Perry. Edited from the original Quartos with Introduction and Notes: Austin: University of Texas Press, 1950. Pp. x + 346. $3.75. Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 REVIEWS ?he Plays of Nathan Field. Edited...