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Henry Fielding (22 April 1707 – 8 October 1754) was an English writer and magistrate known for the use of humour and satire in his works. [1] His 1749 comic novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling was a seminal work in the genre.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, often known simply as Tom Jones, is a comic novel by English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding. It is a Bildungsroman and a picaresque novel . It was first published on 28 February 1749 in London and is among the earliest English works to be classified as a novel. [ 1 ]
The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of his Friend Mr. Abraham Adams, was the first full-length novel by the English author Henry Fielding to be published and among the early novels in the English language. Appearing in 1742 and defined by Fielding as a "comic epic poem in prose", it tells of a good-natured footman's adventures ...
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Title page of Amelia Amelia is a sentimental novel written by Henry Fielding and published in December 1751. It was the fourth and final novel written by Fielding, and it was printed in only one edition while the author was alive, although 5,000 copies were published of the first edition. Amelia follows the life of Amelia and Captain William Booth after they are married. It contains many ...
Gabriel Fielding (Alan Gabriel Barnsley 1916–1986) Helen Fielding (born 1958), Bridget Jones's Diary; Henry Fielding (1707–1754), Tom Jones; Sarah Fielding (1710–1768), The Governess, or The Little Female Academy; Anne Fine (born 1947), Madame Doubtfire; Ronald Firbank (1886–1926) Tibor Fischer (born 1959), Under the Frog
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The novel is a sustained parody of, and direct response to, the stylistic failings and moral hypocrisy that Fielding saw in Richardson's Pamela. Reading Shamela amounts to re-reading Pamela through a deforming magnifying glass; Richardson's text is rewritten in a way that reveals its hidden implications, to subvert and desecrate it. [3] [4]