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Tag Archives: Henry Fielding
Love Life, Say No to Christian Masochism
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Taking a Break from Politics
Sometimes, like Mr. Hardcastle in “She Stoops to Conquer,” one needs a break from the world’s news.
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Fielding’s Satire Applied to the 1%
Fielding satiric attacks on the cheats of his day could apply to Wall Street financiers and other wealthy Americans who refuse to share.
Life as a Stage Coach Ride
America is in many ways like the stage coach rides described by Samuel Johnson and Henry Fielding.
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Bloggers Confused Like Novelists of Old
Bloggers are facing confusion about rules similar to that faced by early novelists.
Novels and Baseball Fans, Fixated on Time
As I watched the amazing day of baseball last Wednesday, I found myself thinking (being the literature nerd that I am) that the English novel was invented to do justice to reality when it got this dramatic and complex.
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One of Literature’s Sexiest Eating Scenes
Homer gains Fielding’s admiration by his ability to move seamlessly between epic grandeur and “the shameless dog of the belly.” Perhaps it is Homer’s dexterity that gives Fielding the idea for his own contribution to “Great Eating Scenes in Literature.”
