Henry Fielding

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Standard Name: Fielding, Henry

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Intertextuality and Influence Sara Maitland
She points out that for all Brunton's highly moralistic intentions,
Maitland, Sara, and Mary Brunton. “Introduction”. Self-Control, Pandora, p. ix - xi.
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the reason that her Laura needs self-control is that her feelings are passionate, and also that Laura is attracted to heroes created by women...
Intertextuality and Influence Mrs Martin
Each volume has an introductory chapter, addressing the reader in the manner of, and with some images borrowed from, Henry Fielding or Laurence Sterne (the latter, indeed, is mentioned by name). MM hopes her reader...
Intertextuality and Influence Ann Masterman Skinn
AMS borrows from Richardson a masquerade scene and her basic epistolary form, and radically revises a borrowing from him when her heroine stabs a would-be rapist with scissors. But her general tone and her enjoyment...
Intertextuality and Influence Susan Smythies
The title-page bears a quotation from Prior 's verse romance Henry and Emma, but SS lays explicit claim, too, to a canonical tradition of prose fiction. The book begins with a series of tales...
Intertextuality and Influence Eliza Haywood
This satiric, self-reflexive entertainment makes minimal changes to its source, Henry Fielding 's The Tragedy of Tragedies (itself adapted from his Tom Thumb, 1730). There has been controversy over the Opera's music, which...
Intertextuality and Influence Djuna Barnes
Henry Fielding Barnes dubbed her heroine, Evangeline Musset, a female Tom Jones.
Lanser, Susan Sniader, and Djuna Barnes. “Introduction”. Ladies Almanack, New York University Press, p. xv - li.
xxix
She adopts a mock eighteenth-century style. The book's full title—Ladies Almanack, showing their Signs and their tides; their Moons and their Changes; the...
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Latter
The first letter, the earliest piece in the volume, was said to have been written seventeen years ago at the age of seventeen: to Myra, which suggests that ML may have been one among...
Intertextuality and Influence Margaret Legge
When her mother dies leaving her some money, Janet writes to her husband (who still idolises her, but looks down upon her from a mental height and explains things in the simplest possible way, with...
Intertextuality and Influence Anna Steele
The novel begins with the Lisle family taking up residence at the ill-fated house of Gardenhurst, an estate that had been gambled away by its young heir during the reign of Charles II , and...
Literary responses Eliza Haywood
In the Monthly Review, Ralph Griffiths passed a judgement which was inflected against Betsy Thoughtless by issues of gender. He guessed that the author was female because of the novel's attention to matters of...
Literary responses Charlotte Lennox
CL 's The Female Quixote was crucially reviewed by Henry Fielding in his Covent Garden Journal.
Fielding, Henry. The Covent-Garden Journal. Editor Jensen, Gerard Edward, Vol.
2 vols.
, Russell and Russell.
2: 279-82
Literary responses Jane Collier
The book's authorship is generally accepted, although Jayne Elizabeth Lewis has written that JC produced it evidently with some assistance from Fielding .
Lewis, Jayne Elizabeth. “Clarissa’s Cruelty: Modern Fables of Moral Authority in <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>The History of a Young Lady</span&gt”;. Clarissa and Her Readers: New Essays for the Clarissa Project, edited by Carol Houlihan Flynn and Edward Copeland, AMS Press, pp. 45-67.
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Carolyn Woodward has argued on the basis of closely reading Sallys...
Literary responses Anna Maria Bennett
Mary Russell Mitford read the Beggar Girl with delight as a schoolgirl in Chelsea, liking it not only for the character and the liveliness, but for the abundant story—incident toppling after incident; all sufficiently natural...
Literary responses Teresia Constantia Phillips
The Thais of the title was an ancient courtesan. Historian Kathleen Wilson says that in JamaicaTCP acquired the nickname of The Black Widow in allusion to her many marriages and her supposedly destructive effect...
Literary responses Jane West
The Critical Review was enthusiastic about A Gossip's Story, recommending it as an antidote to the pernicious maxims of most modern sentimental novels. The reviewer said that West's frequent touches of delicate humour came...

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