Fieldingesque
Adjective
In the style of the novelist and dramatist Henry Fielding
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Sexually frank and verbally inventive, Cleland's text constitutes an intriguing response to the dual claims of Richardsonian and Fieldingesque fiction.
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But the only examples that Benson provides of this separate Fieldingesque perspective are the novel's title and what he calls the self-pitying epigraph from Gertrude Stein (ibid.).
The reader finds him/herself in a Fieldingesque landscape full of ruddy life but marked by scepticism about human motivation and about enthusiasm and pretension in all its guises.
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