{"product_id":"the-life-of-henry-fielding-isbn-9780631191469","title":"The Life of Henry Fielding","description":"Each chapter in this intriguing book by one of the world's leading authorities on Henry Fielding begins with an annotated chronology of the known facts, followed by analyses of the important issues. Paulson's account must be essential reading to all admirers and serious students of Fielding and his work.  List of Illustrations. \u003cp\u003ePreface.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Student, 1707-1730.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChronology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEarly Life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLiterary Apprenticeship.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Playwright, 1730-1737.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChronology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAuthor of Farce and Comedy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLibertine and Freethinker.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Hackney Writer and Barrister, 1737-1741.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChronology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEssayist.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExperiments in Prose and Poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Author of \u003ci\u003eJoseph Andrews,\u003c\/i\u003e 1741-1742.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChronology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnti-\u003ci\u003ePamela:\u003c\/i\u003e Character and Action.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Man in the Work.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Author of \u003ci\u003eTom Jones,\u003c\/i\u003e 1742-1748.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChronology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMan of Letters.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAttorney for the Defense.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePatriot and Historian.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Magistrate, 1748-1754.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChronology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReformer.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAuthor of Amelia.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAutobiography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn the Wake of \u003ci\u003eAmelia.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRetirement and Death.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"With its generous fomat and heavyweight line-up of contributors, the Blackwell Critical Biographies series has developed into an impressive body of biographical and critical appraisals, and \u003ci\u003eThe Life of Henry Fielding\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful addition.\" \u003ci\u003eReview of English Studies\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c!--end--\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Instead of dwelling on the life, Paulson (John Hopkins Univ.) provides learned and sensitive readings of all of Fielding's major works and many minor ones.\" \"The comments on Fielding's attitudes toward deism and his relationship with William Hogarth are valuable. The scholarship is admirably thorough.\" \"Recommended for collections serving upper-division undergraduates and above.\" \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eRonald Paulson\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of English at John Hopkins University. He is both a major authority on Henry Fielding and one of the world's leading scholars of eighteenth-century literary and artistic culture. His recent books include \u003ci\u003eThe Beautiful, Novel and Strange: Aesthetics and Heterodoxy \u003c\/i\u003e(!995) and \u003ci\u003eDon Quixote in England: The Aesthetics of Laughter\u003c\/i\u003e (1998).  For Henry Fielding, 'storytelling', whether in the form of a play, essay or novel, was a means of transmuting the dross of his own experiences.  \u003cp\u003eIn this important new critical biography, Ronald Paulson brilliantly demonstrates how Fielding's life and writings evolved according to his experiments with different professions. It is not sufficient to say that he moved from one literary genre to the next, from drama to essay, from satire to novel. As a playwright and theater manager he thematized the theater and its workings in his writings, moving on to do the same as a journalist, barrister, and finally magistrate. Tom Jones, for example, can be interpreted as a self-projection, seen from the perspective of a barrister, an advocate for the defense; or Billy Booth as a conflation of the author and his father, seen now from the perspective of a grim but just magistrate.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEach chapter in this intriguing book begins with an annotated chronology of the known facts, followed by analyses of the important issues. Paulson's account will be essential reading for all admirers of Fielding as well as serious students of his work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990277865701,"sku":"NP9780631191469","price":98.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631191469.jpg?v=1761787174","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-life-of-henry-fielding-isbn-9780631191469","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}