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Provides information on the life and works of Henry Fielding. Covers such topics as Fielding's residences; his family members and household; historical persons, including authors who influenced him; his works; themes and topics important to his writings; and characters in his plays and prose fiction.

Authors, English --- Biography --- English authors --- Fielding, Henry, --- Author of Tom Thumb the Great, --- Tom Thumb the Great, Author of, --- Drawcansir, Alexander, --- Filʹding, Genri, --- Gualterus, Petrus, --- Gulliver, Lemuel, --- Keyber, Conny, --- Petrus Gualterus, --- Scriblerus Secundus, --- Trottplaid, John, --- Vinegar, Hercules, --- Filding, Henri, --- Fielding, Henri, --- Fielding, Enrique, --- פילדינג, הנרי --- פילדינג, הנרי, --- English literature

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English language --- Irony in literature. --- Fiction --- Fiction writing --- Metafiction --- Writing, Fiction --- Authorship --- Rhetoric. --- Technique. --- Fielding, Henry, --- Author of Tom Thumb the Great, --- Tom Thumb the Great, Author of, --- Drawcansir, Alexander, --- Filʹding, Genri, --- Gualterus, Petrus, --- Gulliver, Lemuel, --- Keyber, Conny, --- Petrus Gualterus, --- Scriblerus Secundus, --- Trottplaid, John, --- Vinegar, Hercules, --- Filding, Henri, --- Fielding, Henri, --- Fielding, Enrique, --- פילדינג, הנרי --- פילדינג, הנרי, --- Germanic languages

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Potter is the first author to make clear how English libertinism changed during the eighteenth century as the violent, hypersexualized Hobbesian libertine, typified by the Earl of Rochester, was tempered by England's cultures of sentiment and sensibility. The good-natured Georgian libertinism that emerged maintained the subversive social, religious, sexual, and philosophical tenets of the old libertinism, but misogynist brutality was replaced by freedom and autonomy for the individual, whether male or female. Libertinism encompasses issues of gender, sexuality, and literary and cultural history and thus provides a useful cultural context for a discussion of a number of critical approaches to Fielding's work, including feminism, queer theory, new historicism, and cultural studies. The traditional view of Fielding as a warm-blooded but essentially prudent moralist is reconsidered here in light of the symbiotic relationship Potter argues existed between Fielding and this mediated libertinism. Fielding developed the discourse in his own terms, beginning with his licentious early plays and continuing with Shamela and Joseph Andrews, in which Fielding first subverts, then reforms, popular social constructs of virtue. Fielding later develops his archetypal Georgian libertine in Tom Jones, and continues his consideration with Amelia, whose virtuous heroine embodies Fielding's balance of masculinity and femininity, his controversial understanding of virtue, and the individualism, privilege, and passion of the libertine discourse in which he so prominently positioned himself.

Libertinism in literature. --- English literature --- History and criticism. --- Fielding, Henry, --- Author of Tom Thumb the Great, --- Tom Thumb the Great, Author of, --- Drawcansir, Alexander, --- Filʹding, Genri, --- Gualterus, Petrus, --- Gulliver, Lemuel, --- Keyber, Conny, --- Petrus Gualterus, --- Scriblerus Secundus, --- Trottplaid, John, --- Vinegar, Hercules, --- Filding, Henri, --- Fielding, Henri, --- Fielding, Enrique, --- פילדינג, הנרי --- פילדינג, הנרי, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Fielding, Henry --- Criticism and interpretation --- Libertinism in literature --- 18th century --- History and criticism --- 17th century --- England --- Social life and customs

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In recent decades the masquerade has enjoyed a revival in literary and cultural studies. It has been seen as a symptom of the irrational trends permeating the Age of Reason and as a sign of the instability, arbitrariness as well as non-essentiality of personal identity; notions testifying to affinities between the eighteenth century and our own time. In Quest of the Self offers a new consideration not only of the masquerade as such, but also of the ways in which it was transposed into literature during the period. Here it emerges as a dominant trope governing the poetics and the ideological dimensions of selected eighteenth-century novels by Henry Fielding, Tobias Smollett and Laurence Sterne. Throughout, the book demonstrates that the travelling protagonists of the novels, metaphorically speaking, take part in the ‘masquerade of the world’, finding themselves in quest of their own selves and struggling to determine who they really are.

English fiction --- Literature and society --- Masquerades --- Travelers --- English fiction. --- Literature and society. --- Manners and customs. --- Masquerades. --- Masquerades in literature. --- Travelers. --- Travellers --- Voyagers --- Wayfarers --- Persons --- Voyages and travels --- Amusements --- Mumming --- Ceremonies --- Customs, Social --- Folkways --- Social customs --- Social life and customs --- Traditions --- Usages --- Civilization --- Ethnology --- Etiquette --- Rites and ceremonies --- Literature and sociology --- Literature --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- English literature --- History and criticism. --- History --- Social aspects --- Fielding, Henry, --- Smollett, T. --- Sterne, Laurence, --- Smollet, T. --- Smollett, Tobias George, --- Smollett, Tobias, --- Author of Roderick Random, --- Roderick Random, Author of, --- Author of Tom Thumb the Great, --- Tom Thumb the Great, Author of, --- Drawcansir, Alexander, --- Filʹding, Genri, --- Gualterus, Petrus, --- Gulliver, Lemuel, --- Keyber, Conny, --- Petrus Gualterus, --- Scriblerus Secundus, --- Trottplaid, John, --- Vinegar, Hercules, --- Filding, Henri, --- Fielding, Henri, --- Fielding, Enrique, --- פילדינג, הנרי --- פילדינג, הנרי, --- Stʻērn, Lawrēns, --- Yorick, --- Stern, Lourens, --- Iorik, --- Sterne, --- Sŭtʻŏn, Lorensŭ, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- 1700-1799 --- Great Britain --- England. --- Great Britain. --- Anglia --- Angliyah --- Briṭanyah --- England and Wales --- Förenade kungariket --- Grã-Bretanha --- Grande-Bretagne --- Grossbritannien --- Igirisu --- Iso-Britannia --- Marea Britanie --- Nagy-Britannia --- Prydain Fawr --- Royaume-Uni --- Saharātchaʻānāčhak --- Storbritannien --- United Kingdom --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland --- Velikobritanii͡ --- Wielka Brytania --- Yhdistynyt kuningaskunta --- Northern Ireland --- Scotland --- Wales --- Angleterre --- Anglii͡ --- Anglija --- Engeland --- Inghilterra --- Inglaterra --- Stern, Lorens,