Tag Archives: Henry Fielding

Taking a Break from Politics

By Robin Bates | Published: April 24, 2013

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%

By Robin Bates | Published: April 11, 2013

Fielding satiric attacks on the cheats of his day could apply to Wall Street financiers and other wealthy Americans who refuse to share.

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Life as a Stage Coach Ride

By Robin Bates | Published: March 25, 2013

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

By Robin Bates | Published: March 6, 2013

Bloggers are facing confusion about rules similar to that faced by early novelists.

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Lit Options for Election Day Defeat

By Robin Bates | Published: November 6, 2012

Responding to election day loss, will we be calm like Henry Fielding or in agony like Grendel?

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Novels and Baseball Fans, Fixated on Time

By Robin Bates | Published: October 3, 2011

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

By Robin Bates | Published: August 9, 2011

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.”

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Eric Cantor and Famous Literary Sneers

By Robin Bates | Published: July 14, 2011

If you’ve been paying any attention to America’s budget battles, you know that Congressional Republicans are currently engaged in a dangerous game of chicken with President Obama over raising the debt ceiling. Today’s post on the subject features a parallel with Macbeth and a glance at famous literary sneers.

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Satirizing Doctors, the Best Medicine

By Robin Bates | Published: April 19, 2010

Doctors debate while patient dies in Hogarth’s “Harlot’s Progress,” plate V I’ve talked several times about my friend Alan, who has been battling cancer for a while now.  At present he is still alive, still working out at the gym, and still in the dark about what kind of cancer he has.   He longs for […]

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