Henry Fielding and his novels

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Henry
Fielding
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2. Biography
His works
Fielding As a father ofnovel
Overview

3. Date of Birth: 22 April, 1707
Place of Birth: Sharpham, Somerset, England
Pen name: "Captain Hercules Vinegar", "H. Scriblerus
Secundus"; some work published anonymously
Occupation: novelist, dramatist and essayist
Nationality: English
Education: Eton College
Period: 1728-1754
Genre: comedy, satire, picaresque
Literary movement: Enlightenment, Augustan Age
Relatives:Sarah Fielding, John Fielding
Date of Death: 8 October, 1754 (aged 47)
Biography

4. Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of his Friend
Mr. Abraham Adams, was the first full-length
novel by the English author Henry Fielding to be
published and among the early novels in the
English language. Appearing in 1742 and
defined by Fielding as a "comic epic poem in
prose", it tells of a good-natured footman's
adventures on the road home from London with
his friend and mentor, the absent-minded
parson Abraham Adams.
Amelia is a sentimental novel written by
Henry Fielding and published in
December 1751. It was the fourth and
final novel written by Fielding, and it was
printed in only one edition while the
author was alive, although 5,000 copies
were published of the first edition.
His
Exceptional
Works

5. Jonathan Wild, the Great is a satiric novel by Henry
Fielding. It was published in 1743 in Fielding's Miscellanies,
third volume. It is a satiric account of the life of London
underworld boss Jonathan Wild (1682–1725). It is an
experiment in the various narrative genres that were
popular at the time: serious history, criminal biography,
political satire, and picaresque novel. Some have argued
that it is mainly a satire on Britain's first Prime Minister
Robert Walpole, who was continuously charged by his
political enemies with allegations of corruption.
Foundling, often known simply as Tom Jones, is a comic
novel by English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding.
It is a Bildungsroman and a picaresque novel. It was
first published on 28 February 1749 in London and is
among the earliest English works to be classified as a
novel.
It is the earliest novel mentioned by W. Somerset
Maugham in his 1948 book Great Novelists and Their
Novels among the ten best novels of the world.

6. It is the fielding that gave the English novel a definite look
and feel. He devised the theory of novel writing. He has
made an invaluable contribution to the development of
plot construction and characterization. He made the novel an
effective weapon of social criticism.
For this reason, Sir Walter Scott correctly called him the
Father of an English novel.
Richardson, Fielding, Smollett and Stern are
known as the four wheels of the novel. Of them,
Fielding's contribution to the English novel is
significant. Noone deserves to be called the
father of an English novel.
Father of novel

7. Comic Epic in Prose
Another contribution of Fielding is his concept of
the novel as a comic epic in prose. He formulated
the theory of novel in his prefaces of Joseph
Andrews.
• A heroic epic has a conspicuous hero, grand
theme, a continuous action,a journey to the
underworld, wars, digressions, discovery, high
seriousness, a high moral lesson and bombastic
diction in it.
• He depicted their lives in all its authenticity.
Graphs in literature
Graph before Fielding did not hold much
importance.
But Fielding revolutionized the concept of
graph construction.
•The graph of 'Tom Jones' is one of the
three best graphs ever planned.
•Thus a well-organized graph is one of the
main contributions of Fielding.

8. Characterization
• Fielding is the creator of the novel of
character.
He breathed life into his characters.
• He peopled the novel with a great
crowd of lively and interesting
characters.
Like Shakespeare, he portrays all kind of
human characters as real human beings.
• Fielding is the first realist of the
English novel. Common life is the
material of his novels.
• His realism is epical in its range.
Thus Fielding is the founder of the
modern realistic novel.
Realism

9. • His humour is exuberant, spontaneous, tolerant
and genial.
• He lashes out his satire at affectation, vanity,
pedantry, hypocrisy, and vice. But he is always
human and humane.
• The irony is a great weapon of his satire.
All the great humourists are influenced by
Fielding.
Fielding is champion in so many other respects.
His great contribution is the localization of the
scene. He gives graphic details of Tom's journey
to London on the highways.
His novels are thoroughly English.
His dialogues are lively as well as natural.
He was a superb craftsman.
His art of narration is praiseworthy.
He brought a healthy moral vision.
Other Reasons
Humour

10. • Sir Walter Scott called Henry Fielding the “father of
the English novel,” and the phrase still indicates
Fielding’s place in the history of literature.
• Although not the first English novelist, in fact, he was
the first to approach the genre with a fully functional
theory of the novel; who modern critics call the comic
epic, epic, and home-made epic.
• He established the tradition of reality presented in a
comprehensive survey of contemporary society that
dominated English stories until then the end of the 19th
century.
Legacy

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