Henry Fielding

Biographical information:

A brief biography -- like the Defoe biography, it is factually accurate but focuses on the irreverent and unusual.

Tom Jones sites:

Full Text of Tom Jones in a pretty HTML version. This presents the entire book by chapters-remember that you can search for words and phrases in a Netscape document by selecting "Edit" and then selecting "Find." However, in this version you'll have to search individual chapters, rather than the whole work. If you want to access the full text on a single page, click this link.

Historical context:

William Hogarth's works underlie Tom Jones; both Hogarth's paintings and Fielding's novel satirize society through exaggeration. Fielding refers directly to several Hogarth paintings in the course of the novel, and this site will show you some of them.

A good overview of the 18^th Century "Age of Style" (including fashion, painting, architecture, and science), this site also contains links to other 18^th Century writers.

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