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DISTURBING THE RHYTHM OF COMEDY
Epic deception. And arriving at the altar with a faint pulse.That was the view of Sarah Fielding, author and sister of Henry Fielding. The epic notion of the “great end” enters the comic novel as the marriage that sanctifies the culture … Continue reading
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PREOCCUPIED WITH GOODNESS: Almost Forgivable Appetites For Life
Tom Jones was perpetually in delicate situations. As Henry Fielding remarked in one of his digressions,” It is not enough that your designs, nay, that your actions are intrinsically good; you must take care that they appear so.” Tom was … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Pettit, Alexander Pope, Aphra Behn, Brian McCrea, C.J. Rawson, Claude Rawson, Daniel Defoe, G.M. Godden, Henry Fielding, Horace Walpole, Ian Hislop, James Gillray, John Collet, John Trusler, Larry Laban, Laurence Stern, Laurence Sterne, Manfred Weidhorn, Martin C. Battestin, Matthew Wickham, Oliver Goldsmith, Rev. John Trusler, Robin Bates, Russell A. Hunt, Sally Feldman, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Richardson, Samuel taylor Coleridge, Sarah Fielding, Simon Varey, Sir Robert Walpole, Thomas Gray, Thomas R. Cleary, Thomas Rowlandson, William Hogarth
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HENRY FIELDING :LONDON CALLING & POETIC FAITH
London calling to the faraway towns Now war is declared – and battle come down London calling to the underworld Come out of the cupboard,you boys and girls London calling, now don’t look to us Phoney Beatlemania has bitten the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Pope, Alexander Welsh, Aphra Behn, Brian McCrea, Claude Rawson, David Garrick, G.M. Godden, Gay, George Bernard Shaw, Horace Walpole, John Gay, Jonathan Swift, Larry Laban, Manfred Weidhorn, Martin C. Battestin, Matthew Wickham, Ralph Allen Bath, Robert Walpole, Robin Bates, Russell A. Hunt, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Richardson, Simon Varey, Thomas R. Cleary, Thomas Rowlandson, William Hogarth, William Makepiece Thackeray
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HIS MUSE HAD SUNG THE LOUDEST IN TAVERN CHORUSES
By the publication of Tom Jones in 1749, Henry Fielding had asserted that the idealized, morally beyond reproach hero is no longer a viable character in literature. The idea of perfectibility was replaced by human flaw and redemption. Secondly, Fielding … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Pope, Alpha Ben, Daniel Defoe, Edmund Fielding, G.M. Godden, Henry Fielding, Horace Walpole, Jonathan Swift, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Larry Laban, Laurence Stern, Laurence Sterne, Manfred Weidhorn, Ralph Allen, Ralph Allen Bath, Robert Walpole, Robin Bates, Russell A. Hunt, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Richardson, Thomas R. Cleary, William Hogarth
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JANE AUSTEN & REGULATED HATRED : Humility and Ruthlessness
“… There was a kind of cold-hearted selfishness on both sides, which mutually attracted them… they were neither of them quite enough in love to think that three hundred and fifty pounds a year would supply them with the comforts … Continue reading
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Tagged Abi Ryan, Alexander Pope, Ben H. Winters, Claudia Jeanette Lockhart, Claudia L. Johnson, D.C. Measham, D.W. Harding, David Lodge, David M. Buss, Edgar Allan Poe, F.R. Leavis, Fanny Burney, Heather Jackson, James Gillray, Jane Austen, Kate Gordon, Kathryn Duncan, Maja Djikic, Mary Brunton, Michael J. Stasio, Nathalie Portman, P.D. James, Richard W. Noland, Robert B. Cialdini, Robert P. Irvine, Samuel taylor Coleridge, Seth Grahame-Smith, Shakespeare, Thomas Rowlandson, Wilkie Collins, William Hogarth, Zoe Brennan
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JANE AUSTEN: Pride & Prejudice Over The Finkler Question
…Howard Jacobson grew up in working-class Manchester, to a father who worked as a children’s entertainer and who ran a market stall selling trinkets. Bright, bookish and intellectually ambitious, he studied English literature at Cambridge under the legendary F.R. Leavis. “I’m … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Pope, Billie Piper, Charles Dickens, Charles McGrath, Charlotte Bronte, D.H. Lawrence, David Lodge, Edward Said, F.R. Leavis, George Eliot, Howard Jacobson, Hugo Petrus, Jane Austen, John Mullen, John Wiltshire, Malcolm Bradbury, Michelle Kerns, Rob Bricken, Rowan Pelling, Samuel Johnson, Sarah Lyall, Seth Grahame-Smith, The Finkler Question, Tony Grant
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PRIDE before PLEASURE: ROMANCE As An Utterly Suspect Pretension
“À propos to novels, I have discovered that our great favourite, Miss Austen, is my countrywoman; that mamma knew all her family very intimately; and that she herself is an old maid (I beg her pardon – I mean a … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Pope, Charlotte Bronte, Coleridge, Fanny Burney, George Lewes, Hugo Petrus, Jane Austen, Kate Beaton, Maria Edgeworth, Mark Twain, Mary Russell Mitford, Michelle Kerns, Milton, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Rev. A.G. Lestrange, Robert Morrison, Sir Walter Scott, Thomas Lawrence, Tim Killick
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GOTHIC D.I.Y & FORGETTING TO DIE
You can build it. We can help. Lets build something together.So the slogans go. The eighteenth-century quest for the shudders went well beyond the craving for ”horrid” novels and took the form of horrid architecture that seemed to be permeated … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Pope, Amanda Vickery, Batty Langley, Charles Over, Christopher Wren, Desmond Williams, Dr. Johnson, Helen Keller, Horace Walpole, Horton Folly Tower, Humphrey Sturt, Inigo Jones, James Bond, Jonathan Glancey, Madeline Gins, Reversible Destiny Lofts, Shusaku Arakawa
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