The Marvellous in Fielding's NovelsUniversity Press of America, 1981 - 235 pages The first full length work to explore in depth Fielding's concept of wonder and the marvellous. Argues that Fielding defended the classical Christian ideas of wonder) wonder as the beginning of Philosophy) in an age that reduced wonder to vulgar astonishment at the grotesque, the old, and the curious (what Fielding calls 'the monstrous'). |
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Page 41
... Fielding's wise fools and prudent wise men embody is no more contradic- tory than the union of work and play in Wilson's art of living , the mixture of profit and delight in Fielding's digressions , the marriage of comedy and epic in ...
... Fielding's wise fools and prudent wise men embody is no more contradic- tory than the union of work and play in Wilson's art of living , the mixture of profit and delight in Fielding's digressions , the marriage of comedy and epic in ...
Page 167
... Fielding's novels as general in its care for all men as well as particular in its con- cern for the hero . Thus Fielding's view of Provi- dence contradicts the Newtonian or deistic version that eliminates God from history and confines ...
... Fielding's novels as general in its care for all men as well as particular in its con- cern for the hero . Thus Fielding's view of Provi- dence contradicts the Newtonian or deistic version that eliminates God from history and confines ...
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... Fielding's Longinus , whom he praises as one of the " noble critics " in the rank of Aristotle and Horace among the ... Fielding's a own classicism : For that is really great which bears 203.
... Fielding's Longinus , whom he praises as one of the " noble critics " in the rank of Aristotle and Horace among the ... Fielding's a own classicism : For that is really great which bears 203.
Contents
ART AS THE ABILITY TO CONCEAL | 1 |
NATURE AND FORTUNE AS INTELLI | 55 |
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Copyright | |
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