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Article: The Cambridge Companion to Henry Fielding.(Brief article)(Book review)
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- December 22, 2007
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The Cambridge Companion to Henry Fielding. Claude Rawson, editor. Cambridge University Press. [pounds sterling]45.00 (US$85.00). xv + 202 pages. ISBN 978-0-521-67092-0. Fielding remains not only one of the most entertaining but one of the most important of Georgian writers. As Prof. Rawson, himself a Fielding expert, writes in the Introduction, Fielding, with Richardson, helped to determine the future of the novel in English. But Fielding was also a leading playwright, pamphleteer and journalist and this excellent companion's twelve essays ...