Reading at arm's length: Fielding's contract with the reader in 'Tom Jones.' (novel by English writer Henry Fielding)(Making Genre: Studies in the Novel or Something Like It, 1684-1762) Posted: Apr 10, 2008 09:00:42
Academic readers of Henry Fielding's Tom Jones (1749) have sensed in what John Richetti ... readerly work is that Fielding intended Tom Jones to be read more than once: on second ... establish a demanding text in the case of Tom Jones, has generated a fugue of arguments ...