Errors and Reconciliations - Marriage in the Plays and Novels of Henry Fielding

List of contents

Section 1: Fielding’s Theatrical Productions between 1728 and 1737

Chapter 1: An Examination of Fielding’s 9 Year Dramatic Career

Chapter 2: Fielding’s Transition between Theatre and Prose Fiction
Section 2: Early Novels between 1741 and 1746

Chapter 3: Shamela

Chapter 4: Jonathan Wild

Chapter Five: The Female Husband
Section 3: Tom Jones and Amelia, Novels of Fielding’s Maturity

Chapter 6: Tom Jones

Chapter 7: Amelia

About the author

Anaclara Castro teaches English Literature at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She obtained her PhD at the University of York, UK in 2014. She has published academic articles on Henry Fielding, Lawrence Sterne, and William Hogarth. She is interested in the relations between the theatre and the novel in the long eighteenth century.

Summary

Henry Fielding is most well-known for his monumental novel Tom Jones. Though not necessarily common knowledge, Henry Fielding started his literary career as a dramatist and eventually transitioned to writing novels. Though vastly different in their approach and subject, there is a common thread in Fielding’s work that spanned his c

Product details

• Authors: Anaclara Castro-Santana
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780367666927
• ISBN: 978-0-367-66692-7
• No. of pages: 254
• Series: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies