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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... virtue in Pamela , but he de- livers an accomplished coquette . He promises " a great deal " but produces " nothing ... virtue to a beauti- ful woman in " An Essay on the Knowledge of the Characters of Men , " he writes : he writes ...
... virtue in Pamela , but he de- livers an accomplished coquette . He promises " a great deal " but produces " nothing ... virtue to a beauti- ful woman in " An Essay on the Knowledge of the Characters of Men , " he writes : he writes ...
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... virtue . For Fielding virtue does good by stealth , not with a trumpet ; it seeks the good of the other person , not the prize of " Virtue Rewarded . " Like Richardson's Pamela , which promises a model of virtue but delivers a worldly ...
... virtue . For Fielding virtue does good by stealth , not with a trumpet ; it seeks the good of the other person , not the prize of " Virtue Rewarded . " Like Richardson's Pamela , which promises a model of virtue but delivers a worldly ...
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... virtue and to re- pel men from the ugliness of evil : " My snarling is the effect of my love , in order , by my invec- tives against vice , to frighten men from it , and drive them into the road of virtue . 118 ་ ་ Com- " Were The roles ...
... virtue and to re- pel men from the ugliness of evil : " My snarling is the effect of my love , in order , by my invec- tives against vice , to frighten men from it , and drive them into the road of virtue . 118 ་ ་ Com- " Were The roles ...
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ART AS THE ABILITY TO CONCEAL | 1 |
NATURE AND FORTUNE AS INTELLI | 55 |
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