Fielding, Henry

This dissertation treats the allegorization of cures and doctors in Don Quixote, Tom Jones, and Tristram Shandy. Beginning with Part One of Don Quixote , the analysis shows how tropes, or changes in the meaning, of curative practices in the literary realm of Cervantes' novel ref…

This dissertation reads Tom Jones as a book of Platonic speech that Fielding foresaw would be misread for centuries by post-Aristotelian critics of kinds of writing. It argues that he shaped his History ... of a Foundling to help human nature survive the Dunciad-like dark age th…