Fielding

by John Butt

John Butt shows that while the English novel did not, strictly speaking, begin with the work of Fielding and Richardson, Fielding especially made a very definite and brilliant contribution to its development. Butt examines the novels and reveals that Joseph Andrews, 'a display of the Ridiculous, of the affectations which arise from vanity and hypocrisy', Tom Jones, that splendid portrait, as Thackeray was enviously to note, of a whole...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0582010578
• ISBN13: 9780582010574
• Release Date: January 1968
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 35 Pages