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Henry Fielding, Mask and Feast

Andrew Wright

出版	University of California Press, 1965
主題	Literary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=oyxT4r1KCGsC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋

"A serious playfulness, a comic transfiguration of the world-this is what Andrew Wright sees as the essence of Fielding's novels. Too charitable and too disabused to make a satirist, he 'puts on the mask of tavern keeper and serves up thee various dishes on human nature': his great successes were 'festive' books- Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones; when he attempted moralising, in Amelia, he lost his touch. In this excellent book, Professor Wright examines the workings of Fielding's comic genius. He shows how realistic detail in blended with 'operatic' structure, and artificial situations arise paradoxically from naturalistic elements. He calls attention to the big set scenes, which Fielding's experience in the theatre and his friendship for Hogarth helped him to create. There are chapters on the plotting and style of the novels and on the 'basrelief' quality of the characters, who are at the same time round and flat. Henry Fielding was one of the great founders of the English novel; changing fashions and new techniques, as Professor Wright triumphantly shows, have done nothing to diminish this greatness." - Andrew Wright.