Henry Fielding: A Literary Life

by H. Pagliaro

Overview

Henry Fielding: A Literary Life characterizes Fielding's complex personality, in some ways full of contradiction, and yet resolved both by a deep knowledge of human nature, including his own, and by his innate social constructiveness and his gift for friendship and love. The book also details ways in which Fielding's complex attitudes contribute to the subject-matter of his plays and novels and to the rhetorical strategies that control their shape as well. It further shows that his work as lawyer, London magistrate, and social and political essayist was similarly informed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333633236
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	05/11/1998
Series:	Literary Lives
Edition description:	1998
Pages:	237
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x (d)

About the Author

HAROLD PAGLIARO

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements - A Biographical Sketch, 1707-1750 - Fielding in the Theatre - The Novels and Other Prose Fiction - The Final Years, 1751-1754 - Endnotes - Index