“I am, in reality, the founder of a new province of writing” : narrative performance and consumption in Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones.

Critics of 'Tom Jones' have derided the ‘intrusive’ and ‘garrulous’ narrator, or otherwise attempted to justify the authorial voice of the narrator as ancillary to the ‘main’ plot of Tom’s story. In this essay, I propose to reconceive an alternative aspect of the explicit narratorial activ...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yeo, Shu Fang.
Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Format: Final Year Project (FYP)
Language:English
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/49530