Fieldingesque

comparative more Fieldingesque · superlative most Fieldingesque

1. In the style of the novelist and dramatist Henry Fielding

   Sexually frank and verbally inventive, Cleland's text constitutes an intriguing response to the dual claims of Richardsonian and Fieldingesque fiction.

   2006, Brean Hammond, Shaun Regan, Making the Novel: Fiction and Society in Britain, 1660-1789

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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.).

   2011, Peter L. Hays, The Critical Reception of Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, page 69

   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.

   2017, W M Verhoeven, Claudia L Johnson, Philip Cox, Anti-Jacobin Novels, Part II