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Purpose and Narration in Fielding's "Amelia"

Robert Folkenflik
- 24 Jan 1974 - 
- Vol. 7, Iss: 2, pp 168
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This article is published in Novel: A Forum on Fiction.The article was published on 1974-01-24. It has received 5 citations till now.

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Fielding's Novel of Atonement: Confessional Form in Amelia

TL;DR: Fielding's last novel, Amelia Fielding as discussed by the authors, has been read as a complex attempt both to expand the range of his social analysis and to articulate a reading of human experience that places emphasis on the depth of personal emotion.
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Public Context and Imagining Self in Amelia

TL;DR: The Fielding of Amelia as discussed by the authors is an extraordinary merger of the details of the present with psychological emanations from the past that almost equates them, an admonition to his younger self and to young England not to repeat the last twenty years.
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"Chut!" Du discours non rapporté dans les romans de Henry Fielding

TL;DR: The authors introduced a new type of reported discourse, the paraliptic summary (resume paraliptique), where the narrator explicitly refuses to repeat what the character has said, which is a subtype of what Leech and Short (1981) call a narrative report of a speech act and Genette (1972) terms discours narrativise.
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“O, Tom Thumb! Tom Thumb! Wherefore art thou Tom Thumb?”: Early Modern Drama and the Eighteenth-century Writer – Henry Fielding and Fanny Burney

TL;DR: In this paper, an essay is presented on modern drama focusing in the theatrical interpretations, reflections in the fascination for Shakespeare drama, and significance and growing series of writing in critical publications, and discussed the eighteenth-century cultural fascination in producing national poet, restoration of traditions of dramatic literature in modern age, and early modern dramatists.