Jane Austen's lost love Jun 10, 2008
They met at a ball, danced over and over, sat together and talked about their love of books and Henry Fielding. Austen and Lefroy fell in love, but she was penniless and his family was poor - he needed to marry money. (Guardian Unlimited)
Defending the Doodad on the Lamb Chop May 2, 2008
They quote myth-breaking passages from John Bunyan, Jane Austen, Samuel Johnson, Lewis Carroll, Henry Fielding, Robert Frost, Jonathan Swift, James Joyce, Henry Adams and even Andy Rooney. In sum, they endorse the view of Winston Churchill. (Dublin Courier Herald, GA)
Voices carry, and a writer listens Mar 9, 2008
A. Henry Fielding, Flann O'Brien, B. S. Johnson. I have pretty varied tastes. (Boston Globe)
Valentine's Day flicks Feb 9, 2008
In fact, way back in the 1740s, Samuel Richardson wrote a very popular, virtuously upright novel entitled Pamela, and the book's moral sentimentality so put off Henry Fielding that he countered with a vicious parody called, what else, Shamela. Now there's a handy word that should have entered the lexicon. (Globe and Mail)
A life of their own Jan 26, 2008
Fluellen, by contrast, is a comic Welshman, a pedant of the kind Henry Fielding or Cervantes would nimbly satirise, always banging on about military history, and Alexander the Great, and leeks, and Monmouth. Harry rarely makes us laugh, Fluellen always does. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Short and sharp Jan 25, 2008
The sustained appetite among Londoners for apparently realistic depictions of the very real criminality that surrounded them would continue to manifest itself throughout the 18th century in works ranging from the fictions of Henry Fielding and the drama of George Lillo, to the earliest versions of what was eventually to become the Newgate Calendar. Alarmists early in the 19th century looked with horror on the representational excesses of the so-called "Newgate novel" - fictions that took as... (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Raina: Teach Them Not to Think Aug 3, 2007
But of course, as Henry Fielding would have said, shame is the first meal these kinds eat before they go for breakfast. They leave the business of being human to the rampaging Evangelist/Mullah/Mahant, who in turn teach that being human means being victorious in battles of various kinds. (Zmag.org)
British Censorship May 12, 2007
It led to Henry Fielding's retirement as a dramatist, to re-emerge as one of the world's key influencers of the modern novel ... Of the Walpole critics who chose the theatre to mount their attacks on 'the Great Man', two were particularly gifted: Henry Fielding and John Gay. (Suite101.com)
This Day in History Apr 22, 2007
Henry Fielding, English novelist (1707-1754). Untitled Document. (Montana Standard, MT)
‘Master of metaphysical detective story’ teaching nonfiction class Apr 13, 2007
Master of metaphysical detective story teaching nonfiction class. Master of metaphysical detective story teaching nonfiction class. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
The New Disorder Feb 23, 2007
The eighteenth-century Scottish philosopher David Hume spent years hoping to convince his readers that sequence does not necessarily imply causality, but I would guess that he didn t get very far with such contemporary narrative artists as Henry Fielding and Samuel Richardson (although Laurence Sterne, the proto-modernist prankster of Tristram Shandy, may have been listening). Storytellers, relying on sequence and causality, make sense out of nonsense; they impose order, economy, and moral... (New Yorker)
Kundera finds the truth inside an art form Feb 11, 2007
Laurence Sterne learned from Rabelais, Henry Fielding from Cervantes, James Joyce from Gustave Flaubert and post-modernists in all languages from Franz Kafka. Before nodding and saying "of course, of course," it's a good idea to consider in full all of the implications of that - the internationalist imperative. (Buffalo News -- Entertainment)
Hogarth's Harlots, Libertines Parade in London: Martin Gayford Feb 8, 2007
Feb. 7 (Bloomberg) -- ``Who should call the Ingenious Hogarth a burlesque painter,'' wrote the novelist Henry Fielding in 1742, ``Would in my opinion do him very little honor. Fielding felt his friend wasn't a mere caricaturist, as critics tended to complain, he was a great psychological and social realist. (Bloomberg)
Writing For The World Jan 28, 2007
Kundera shows how 17th-century Spaniard Miguel de Cervantes influenced "Tom Jones" scribe Henry Fielding 100 years later. Likewise, Gustave Flaubert's 19th-century novels touched James Joyce, and Franz Kafka inspired Gabriel Garca M rquez to break with artistic tradition. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
The great showman Jan 13, 2007
In his prints - as in the fl neur poems of Swift and John Gay, or in Ned Ward's The London Spy - we walk London's streets, plunging into the city's smells, tastes, sights and sounds, the street-seller's cries, the ballad-singer's lament, the knife-grinder's screech (Henry Fielding said that his print The Enraged Musician, showing a virtuoso shouting from his window at the cacophony without, was "enough to make a man deaf to look at it") ... And in these years, Hogarth's greatest ally, Henry... (Guardian Unlimited)
