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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... Joseph Andrews or of Tom Jones as Fielding does . As a corrective to Richardson's Pamela and Cibber's Apology , objects of satire in Joseph An- drews , Fielding's novel , a biography that belongs to the literature of Praise , will ...
... Joseph Andrews or of Tom Jones as Fielding does . As a corrective to Richardson's Pamela and Cibber's Apology , objects of satire in Joseph An- drews , Fielding's novel , a biography that belongs to the literature of Praise , will ...
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Mitchell Kalpakgian. in Nature . The travel in Joseph Andrews is not a journey to a remote spot like Gulliver's trips to Laputa , Balnibarbi ... Joseph Andrews avoids By the Monstrous , the improbabilities of other travel books and 42.
Mitchell Kalpakgian. in Nature . The travel in Joseph Andrews is not a journey to a remote spot like Gulliver's trips to Laputa , Balnibarbi ... Joseph Andrews avoids By the Monstrous , the improbabilities of other travel books and 42.
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... Joseph and his brethren , one of the sources of the history of Jo- seph Andrews , provides a Biblical analogue of the fortunate fall and reinforces this mystery of good coming from evil and Providence creating greater wonder in the ...
... Joseph and his brethren , one of the sources of the history of Jo- seph Andrews , provides a Biblical analogue of the fortunate fall and reinforces this mystery of good coming from evil and Providence creating greater wonder in the ...
Contents
ART AS THE ABILITY TO CONCEAL | 1 |
NATURE AND FORTUNE AS INTELLI | 55 |
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Copyright | |
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