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1 online resource (244 pages) |
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Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature Ser |
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Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature Ser
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Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; On Marriage Plots; Historical Contexts; Early Eighteenth-Century English Marriage, an Overview; Fielding and Marriage; Critical Contexts; SECTION I The Plays; 1 Fielding's Staging of Marriage, 1728-1737; The Early Eighteenth-Century Stage: A Bird's-Eye View; "What's a Play Without a Marriage?": Stage Comedy and the Marriage Finale; Fielding's Theatrical Debut: Love in Several Masques |
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Thickening and Subverting the Courtship Plot: The Temple Beau and The Author's FarceLaughing Tragedy, Dwarfish Heroism, and Eager Wives: The Tom Thumb Plays; National and Domestic Petticoat Government: The Welsh/Grub-Street Opera; The Elopement Plot of Rape upon Rape/the Coffee-House Politician; Domestic Tyranny: The Letter Writers and The Modern Husband; Fielding's "Scandal-Shop"; SECTION II The Early Novels; 2 The "Great Mogul" Turned Novelist; Seizing Momentum; New Interests; Matters of Religion; The Law; On Novels; 3 From Sham Marriage to a Proper Marriage Plot: Shamela and Joseph Andrews |
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Shamela and the Pamela PhenomenonSteering Away from the Richardson-Fielding Dichotomy; The New "Pleasures of the Town"; The Sham Marriage Plot of Shamela; The Proper Marriage Plot of Joseph Andrews; 4 The Amorous Storyline of Jonathan Wild; Scenes of Ominous Courtship and Modern Marriage; The "Silly" Heartfrees and the Downfall of Wild; Tying All Knots; or the Strange Happy Ending of Jonathan Wild; 5 The Criminal Marriage Plot of The Female Husband; From Rogue Life to Marriage Comedy; The Methodism in Her Love Madness; Becoming a Husband; Shifting Genders, Eschewing Genres |
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Theatrical Roots: Cross-Dressing, Castrati, and the WherewithalFrom Martial to Marital Adventures; or Fielding's Modern Metamorphosis; SECTION III The Novels of Maturity; 6 The Domesticated Rake Made Novel: Tom Jones; Novelizing the Unstageable; Revisiting Old Stage Acquaintances; Errors Forgiven and Parties Reconciled: A Cibberian Turn?; 7 The Good Wife and Her Careless Husband: Amelia; Casting Languishing Looks and Putting on Serene Countenances: The Theatrical Disposition of Secondary Characters; "The Same Jealousy which forms an Othello, or a Suspicious Husband": Casting Booth's Part |
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"The best of Creatures that ever blessed a Man!": On Reforming a Husband Properly and the Problem with Amelia as Paragon of Female VirtueEpilogue: The Marriage of Comedy and Tragedy: Elevating the New Species of Writing; Bibliography (List of Works Consulted); Index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754 fast |
| Subject |
Marriage in literature.
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Marriage in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351770460 |
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1351770462 |
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9781351770477 |
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1351770470 |
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9781351770453 |
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1351770454 |
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9781315197593 |
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1315197596 |
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