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Honest Sins: Georgian Libertinism and the Plays and Novels of Henry Fielding, Po
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- “With very good dust jacket. Very Good hardcover with light shelfwear - NICE! Standard-sized.”
- ISBN
- 9780773518032
- Subject Area
- Literary Criticism
- Publication Name
- Honest Sins : Georgian Libertinism & the Plays & Novels of Henry Fielding
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Subject
- Drama, General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Publication Year
- 1998
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Item Weight
- 16 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.1 in
- Number of Pages
- 216 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
ISBN-10
0773518037
ISBN-13
9780773518032
eBay Product ID (ePID)
436307
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
216 Pages
Publication Name
Honest Sins : Georgian Libertinism & the Plays & Novels of Henry Fielding
Language
English
Subject
Drama, General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year
1998
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
16 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
00-340514
Reviews
"Honest Sins makes a significant, original contribution to studies of Henry Fielding." David Oakleaf, Department of English, University of Calgary.
Synopsis
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., Originally cruel, manipulative, and self-serving, during the eighteenth century the Restoration rake evolved into a more cheerful sinner: the good-natured libertine. While Tom Jones was Henry Fielding's most complete embodiment of this new ideal, Tiffany Potter shows that the revised Georgian libertinism informs and illuminates all of his work.
LC Classification Number
PR3458.L49P68 1999
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