ABSTRACT
First published in 1970, this selection of Fielding’s criticism is an important contribution to our understanding of Fielding and his age. It directs considerable light upon Fielding’s own critical views, with regard both to his own works and to eighteenth-century life and literature at large. The volume includes many of Fielding’s well-known and important statements on literature, society and morals, as well as many which are now difficult to obtain. The selection presents the full range of Fielding’s criticism, showing the relations between his statements concerning literature and his opinions on other matters, and drawing on the complete body of his work. The editor has provided a large-scale analytical introduction.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Part One: The Theatre
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Part Two: Colley Cibber: Prince of Dunces
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Part Three: The Art of Criticism
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Part Four: Pertaining to Grub Street
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Part Five: The Laws of Good Writing
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Part Six: On Wit and Humour
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Part Seven: Approbations
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Part Eight: From The Jacobite’s Journal
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Part Nine: The ‘New Province’ of Writing