Routledge Revivals: Henry Fielding and the Augustan Ideal Under Stress (1972) : 'Nature's Dance of Death' and Other Studies (Paperback)

Preface and Acknowledgements Notes on Texts and Abbreviations Part I: Nature’s Dance of Death 1. Gentleman and Dancing-Masters 2. Nature and the Masteries of Style in Fielding, Swift and Pope 3. Nature, Cruel Circumstance and the Rage for Order: Amelia, with Reflections on Defoe, Smollett and Orwell Part II: Heroes, Clowns and Schoolboys: Mutations in Mock-Heroic 4. The Hero as Clown: Jonathan Wild, Felix Krull and Others 5. Epic vs. History: Jonathan Wild and Augustan Mock-Heroic 6. The World of Wild and Ubu 7. Fielding’s ‘Good’ Merchant: An Appendix on the Problem of Heartfree and Other ‘Good’ Characters in Fielding Index