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... Fielding ( 1707-54 ) . His first novel , Joseph Andrews , was at first conceived as a satire on Pamela , its ... Fielding's death , not only as I shall read no more of his writings , but I believe he lost more than others , as no ...
... Fielding ( 1707-54 ) . His first novel , Joseph Andrews , was at first conceived as a satire on Pamela , its ... Fielding's death , not only as I shall read no more of his writings , but I believe he lost more than others , as no ...
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... Fielding's personages in Joseph Andrews are episodic ; they appear only once , met and passed in the course of ... Fielding's characters is the element in which they live , Fielding's mind and style . Like the style of Thackeray , who ...
... Fielding's personages in Joseph Andrews are episodic ; they appear only once , met and passed in the course of ... Fielding's characters is the element in which they live , Fielding's mind and style . Like the style of Thackeray , who ...
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... Fielding's most fully drawn heroine is Amelia , in the novel of that name , his last , published in 1751. Amelia has always rather worried Fielding's critics . It is a much more somber book than Tom Jones . In that novel , as in Jona ...
... Fielding's most fully drawn heroine is Amelia , in the novel of that name , his last , published in 1751. Amelia has always rather worried Fielding's critics . It is a much more somber book than Tom Jones . In that novel , as in Jona ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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