Henry Fielding
Jenny Uglow
96 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0746307519
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Language: English
Publish: January 10, 1995
This study offers a fresh introduction to the achievement of Henry Fielding (1707-1754) as dramatist, journalist and novelist. Fielding emerges as a writer of startling originality, constantly adapting traditional forms to new ends, whose fiercely ironic analysis of gender, power and language is combined with a comedy at once critical and humane.