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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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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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