SOURCE: "The Comedy of Forms: Low and High," in Henry Fielding, edited by Harold Bloom, Chelsea House, 1987, pp. 43-50. Originally published in Martin Price, To the Palace of Wisdom: Studies in Order and Energy from Dryden to Blake (Price, 1964; Feffer & Simons, 1970).
In the following excerpt, originally published in 1964 and reprinted in 1970 and 1987, Price maintains that the low social status of Fielding's virtuous characters subverts both social and generic expectations.
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