Author: Henry Fielding
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Fielding's Tom Thumb
Author: Henry Fielding
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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Tom Thumb and the Tragedy of Tragedies
Author: Henry Fielding
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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The History of Tom Jones
Author: Henry Fielding
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Author: Henry Fielding
Publisher:
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr. Allworthy on his country estate, Tom Jones is deeply in love with the seemingly unattainable Sophia Western, the beautiful daughter of the neighboring squireathough he sometimes succumbs to the charms of the local girls. When Tom is banished to make his own fortune and Sophia follows him to London to escape an arranged marriage, the adventure begins. A vivid Hogarthian panorama of eighteenth-century life, spiced with danger and intrigue, bawdy exuberance and good-natured authorial interjections, "Tom Jones" is one of the greatest and most ambitious comic novels in English literature.
Publisher:
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr. Allworthy on his country estate, Tom Jones is deeply in love with the seemingly unattainable Sophia Western, the beautiful daughter of the neighboring squireathough he sometimes succumbs to the charms of the local girls. When Tom is banished to make his own fortune and Sophia follows him to London to escape an arranged marriage, the adventure begins. A vivid Hogarthian panorama of eighteenth-century life, spiced with danger and intrigue, bawdy exuberance and good-natured authorial interjections, "Tom Jones" is one of the greatest and most ambitious comic novels in English literature.
The Little Everyman
Author: Deborah Needleman Armintor
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295801646
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Eighteenth-century English literature, art, science, and popular culture exhibited an unprecedented fascination with small male bodies of various kinds. Henry Fielding's Tom Thumb plays drew packed crowds, while public exhibitions advertised male dwarfs as paragons of English masculinity. Bawdy popular poems featured diminutive men paired with enormous women, and amateur scientists anthropomorphized and gendered the "minute bodies" they observed under their fashionable new pocket microscopes. Little men, both real and imagined, embodied the anxieties of a newly bourgeois English culture and were transformed to suit changing concerns about the status of English masculinity in the modern era. The Little Everyman explores this strange trend by tracing the historical trajectory of the supplanting of the premodern court dwarf by a more metaphorical and quintessentially modern "little man" who came to represent in miniature the historical shift in literary production from aristocratic patronage to the bourgeois fantasy of freelance authorship. Armintor's close readings of Pope, Fielding, Swift, and Sterne highlight little recognized aspects of classic works while demonstrating how the little man became an "everyman."
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295801646
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Eighteenth-century English literature, art, science, and popular culture exhibited an unprecedented fascination with small male bodies of various kinds. Henry Fielding's Tom Thumb plays drew packed crowds, while public exhibitions advertised male dwarfs as paragons of English masculinity. Bawdy popular poems featured diminutive men paired with enormous women, and amateur scientists anthropomorphized and gendered the "minute bodies" they observed under their fashionable new pocket microscopes. Little men, both real and imagined, embodied the anxieties of a newly bourgeois English culture and were transformed to suit changing concerns about the status of English masculinity in the modern era. The Little Everyman explores this strange trend by tracing the historical trajectory of the supplanting of the premodern court dwarf by a more metaphorical and quintessentially modern "little man" who came to represent in miniature the historical shift in literary production from aristocratic patronage to the bourgeois fantasy of freelance authorship. Armintor's close readings of Pope, Fielding, Swift, and Sterne highlight little recognized aspects of classic works while demonstrating how the little man became an "everyman."
Tom Thumb; a burletta, altered from H. Fielding
Author: Kane O'Hara
Publisher:
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Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Publisher:
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Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Tom Thumb the Great. An opera. By Henry Fielding. Set to music after the Italian manner, by Mr. Arne, etc
Author: Henry Fielding
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Occasional Form
Author: J. Paul Hunter
Publisher: Baltimore : John Hopkins University Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Publisher: Baltimore : John Hopkins University Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The Plays of Henry Fielding
Author: Albert J. Rivero
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813912288
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Henry Fielding was one of the most interesting playwrights of his time because of his historical position, similar to that of George Bernard Shaw, and his awareness of what it meant to be a playwright at a time when the native dramatic tradition appeared to have settled down for a long sleep and when the only hope for an awakening lay in such low crowd-pleasers as farces, puppet shows, "laughing" tragedies, and ballad operas. By focusing on the plays themselves, Rivero tells the story of Fielding's dramatic career without burdening the reader with an exhaustive history of contemporary plays and playwrights. He provides us with a clear, critical account of Fielding's dramatic career in terms of trends in contemporary dramatic affairs that help to account for his artistic choices in individual plays.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813912288
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Henry Fielding was one of the most interesting playwrights of his time because of his historical position, similar to that of George Bernard Shaw, and his awareness of what it meant to be a playwright at a time when the native dramatic tradition appeared to have settled down for a long sleep and when the only hope for an awakening lay in such low crowd-pleasers as farces, puppet shows, "laughing" tragedies, and ballad operas. By focusing on the plays themselves, Rivero tells the story of Fielding's dramatic career without burdening the reader with an exhaustive history of contemporary plays and playwrights. He provides us with a clear, critical account of Fielding's dramatic career in terms of trends in contemporary dramatic affairs that help to account for his artistic choices in individual plays.
Tom Thumb
Author: Henry Fielding
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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