Quest for Completion: The Wandering Characters of Fielding’s Tom Jones
Quest for Completion: The Wandering Characters of Fielding’s Tom Jones
Author(s): Virgil NemoianuSubject(s): British Literature
Published by: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti
Keywords: 18th century novel; H. Fielding’s “Tom Jones”; very long novel; the idyll; religion and literature;
Summary/Abstract: The present essay was originally a paper presented at a scholarly conference in San Francisco (2014). It is part of a longer series of discussions of the mode in which very long novels strive to replicate integrally the social and natural cosmos. Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones (18th century) endeavors, the critic argues, to reconstitute an idyllic universe, a modest copy of the Garden of Eden.
Journal: Analele Universităţii Bucureşti. Limba şi literatura română
- Issue Year: LXVII/2018
- Issue No: 67
- Page Range: 53-61
- Page Count: 9
- Language: English