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The Cambridge Companion to Henry Fielding
Contemporary Review, Winter, 2007
The Cambridge Companion to Henry Fielding. Claude Rawson, editor. Cambridge University Press. [pounds sterling]45.00 (US$85.00). xv + 202 pages. ISBN 978-0-521-67092-0. Fielding remains not only one of the most entertaining but one of the most important of Georgian writers. As Prof. Rawson, himself a Fielding expert, writes in the Introduction, Fielding, with Richardson, helped to determine the future of the novel in English.
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But Fielding was also a leading playwright, pamphleteer and journalist and this excellent companion's twelve essays look into all these fields. After a biographical essay, there are examinations of his theatrical career, his most famous works--Shamela Andrews, Joseph Andrews, Jonathan Wild, Tom Jones, and Amelia. After that there are essays on Fielding's periodical journalism, on his work as a JP and political figure, on his reputation, on his style and on his relation with 'female authority', concerned with the 'gendered rivalry' between Richardson and Fielding. This presumably meets the need for a 'feminist' essay in these collections. (A.C.)
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