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 51
... chapter of the novel will hereafter be provided in parentheses in the text . 8 Boyd , p . 304 . 9Henry Fielding , Miscellaneous Writings in The Works of Henry Fielding , ed . William Ernest Henley ( New York : Croscup and Sterling ...
... chapter of the novel will hereafter be provided in parentheses in the text . 8 Boyd , p . 304 . 9Henry Fielding , Miscellaneous Writings in The Works of Henry Fielding , ed . William Ernest Henley ( New York : Croscup and Sterling ...
Page 183
... chapter III gives an account of Wild's birth and parents , which in turn is followed by a chapter on Master Wild's boyhood . In fact , this biographer is so preoccupied with preserving , " the regularity of his series , to recall ...
... chapter III gives an account of Wild's birth and parents , which in turn is followed by a chapter on Master Wild's boyhood . In fact , this biographer is so preoccupied with preserving , " the regularity of his series , to recall ...
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... chapter of the biography the narrator states his thesis : 11 as we are to record the actions of a GREAT MAN , so we have nowhere mentioned any spark of goodness which had discovered itself either faint- ly in him . In the last chapter ...
... chapter of the biography the narrator states his thesis : 11 as we are to record the actions of a GREAT MAN , so we have nowhere mentioned any spark of goodness which had discovered itself either faint- ly in him . In the last chapter ...
Contents
ART AS THE ABILITY TO CONCEAL | 1 |
NATURE AND FORTUNE AS INTELLI | 55 |
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Copyright | |
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