Errors and Reconciliations
Marriage in the Plays and Novels of Henry Fielding
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Drama History & Criticism, British
| Author: | Anaclara Castro-Santana | ISBN: | 9781351770460 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis | Publication: | March 21, 2018 |
| Imprint: | Routledge | Language: | English |
| Author: | Anaclara Castro-Santana |
| ISBN: | 9781351770460 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
| Publication: | March 21, 2018 |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Language: | English |
Henry Fielding is most well-known for his monumental novel Tom Jones. Though not necessarily common knowledge*,* Henry Fielding started his literary career as a dramatist and eventually transitioned to writing novels. Though vastly different in their approach and subject, there is a common thread in Fielding’s work that spanned his career: marriage. Errors and Reconciliations: Marriage in the Plays and Novels of Henry Fielding explores this theme, focusing on Fielding’s fascination with matrimony and the ever-present paradoxical nature of marriage in the first half of the eighteenth-century, as a state easily attained but nearly impossible to escape.
Henry Fielding is most well-known for his monumental novel Tom Jones. Though not necessarily common knowledge*,* Henry Fielding started his literary career as a dramatist and eventually transitioned to writing novels. Though vastly different in their approach and subject, there is a common thread in Fielding’s work that spanned his career: marriage. Errors and Reconciliations: Marriage in the Plays and Novels of Henry Fielding explores this theme, focusing on Fielding’s fascination with matrimony and the ever-present paradoxical nature of marriage in the first half of the eighteenth-century, as a state easily attained but nearly impossible to escape.
