“Not Handel's sweet music more pleases the ear, than…”: The Music of Sound in Fielding's and Joseph Reed's Tom Jones

The self-conscious narrator of Fielding’s Tom Jones successively compares himself to a restaurateur, a law-maker, a historian, a literary connoisseur (if not a critic…), an inventor, a soothsayer, a scholar, a traveller, etc. At no stage in the book does he explicitly compare himself to a musician o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pierre Degott
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institut du Monde Anglophone 2016-06-01
Series:Etudes Epistémè
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/episteme/1106