Literature that moves the heart seems opposed to comedy, but sometimes they work together.
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Tag Archives: Henry Fielding
Comedy & Sentiment, a Potent Mixture
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Charles Dickens, Clarissa, Comedy, couples comedy, Henry MacKenzie, Jane Austen, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Man of Feeling, Old Curiosity Shop, Oscar Wilde, romantic comedy age of sensibility, Samuel Richardson, Sense and Sensibility, Thomas Hobbes, Tom Jones Comments closed
Top 10 Parent-Child Classics (Positive)
A top ten list of classics with positive depictions of parent-child relationships.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Mother to Son", Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, Francis Hodgson Burnett, George Eliot, Golden Bowl, Harper Lee, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry James, Huckleberry Finn, Langston Hughes, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Mark Twain, Parent-child relationships, Silas Marner, Tempest, To Kill a Mockingbird, Tom Jones, Uncle Tom's Cabin, William Shakespeare Comments closed
Lit’s Ten Most Sensitive Guys
To match my 10 strongest literary women characters, here are my 10 most sensitive male characters.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Charles Dickens, Cormac McCarthy, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Herman Melville, James Baldwin, Jane Austen, John Milton, John Steinbeck Comments closed
Love Life, Say No to Christian Masochism
Tom Jones gives us a healthier vision of Christianity than that which puts all the emphasis on worldly suffering.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Christian suffering, Christianity, masochism, Tom Jones Comments closed
Taking a Break from Politics
Sometimes, like Mr. Hardcastle in “She Stoops to Conquer,” one needs a break from the world’s news.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged newspapers, Oliver Goldsmith, politics, She Stoops to Conquer Comments closed
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.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Adventurer, Obamacare, politics, Samuel Johnson, Tom Jones Comments closed
Bloggers Confused Like Novelists of Old
Bloggers are facing confusion about rules similar to that faced by early novelists.