Henry Fielding Summary

Everything you need to understand or teach Henry Fielding.

  • 5 Biographies
  • 1 Student Essay
  • 8 Literature Criticisms
  • ...and more

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Biographies (5)

1,239 words, approx. 5 pages
The English author and magistrate Henry Fielding (1707-1754) was one of the great novelists of the 18th century. His fiction, plays, essays, and legal pamphlets show he was a humane and witty man, wit... Read more
17,032 words, approx. 57 pages
There are many ways, many forms, in which novelists attempt to give their readers what Henry Fielding in Tom Jones (1749) refers to as "a Representation, or, as Aristotle calls it, an Imitation of wh... Read more
12,997 words, approx. 44 pages
Although we usually think of Henry Fielding as a novelist, he was a prolific and innovative playwright who published twenty-one plays before his first novel, Joseph Andrews (1742). His plays capture t... Read more
8,244 words, approx. 28 pages
Many critics, Martin C. Battestin and C. J. Rawson perhaps most prominent among them, have described Henry Fielding both as the last and one of the greatest representatives of the Augustan Age in Engl... Read more
18,966 words, approx. 64 pages
Biography EssayThere are many ways, many forms, in which novelists attempt to give their readers what Henry Fielding in Tom Jones (1749) refers to as "a Representation, or, as Aristotle calls it, an ... Read more