Description
Henry Fielding is most well-known for his monumental novel Tom Jones. Though not necessarily common knowledge, Henry Fielding started his literary career as a dramatist and eventually transitioned to writing novels. Though vastly different in their approach and subject, there is a common thread in Fielding’s work that spanned his career: marriage. Errors and Reconciliations: Marriage in the Plays and Novels of Henry Fielding explores this theme, focusing on Fielding’s fascination with matrimony and the ever-present paradoxical nature of marriage in the first half of the eighteenth-century, as a state easily attained but nearly impossible to escape.
Table of Contents
Section 1: Fielding’s Theatrical Productions between 1728 and 1737
Chapter 1: An Examination of Fielding’s 9 Year Dramatic Career
Chapter 2: Fielding’s Transition between Theatre and Prose Fiction
Section 2: Early Novels between 1741 and 1746
Chapter 3: Shamela
Chapter 4: Jonathan Wild
Chapter Five: The Female Husband
Section 3: Tom Jones and Amelia, Novels of Fielding’s Maturity
Chapter 6: Tom Jones
Chapter 7: Amelia
