San Antonio College Library

Now best known for three great novels - Tom Jones, Joseph Andrews and Amelia - Henry Fielding (1707-1754) was one of the most controversial figures of his time. Prominent first as a playwright, then as a novelist and political journalist, and finally as a justice of peace, Fielding made a substantial contribution to eighteenth-century culture, and was hugely influential in the development of the novel as a form, both in Britain and more widely in...

Henry Fielding -- satirist, moralist, comic genius -- shares with Richardson his position as the major force in the development of the English novel. Thirteen essays probe his style, technique, and viewpoint.