{"id":10720,"date":"2010-04-22T00:00:28","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T04:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=10720"},"modified":"2010-04-22T00:00:28","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T04:00:28","slug":"henry-fielding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/04\/22\/henry-fielding\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry Fielding"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today is Henry Fielding<\/a>‘s birthday (1707 – 1754).<\/p>\n

Here’s Frye on Jonathan Wild<\/a> <\/em>in Notebook 36:<\/p>\n

Jonathan Wild<\/em> has suggested three main ideas.\u00a0 First, Wild is an ironic pharmakos, treated explicitly as a counterpart to “greatness.”\u00a0 What happens to him ought to happen to all “great” men: Wild is obviously criminal only because society is still too strong for him: he’s a hero, a Caesar or Alexander, in an ironic context.\u00a0 Second, the book is satire & comic rather than tragic irony, because Fielding’s norms are unmistakable: passages that would represent a complete breakdown\u00a0 of the ironic pretense (e.g. the description of Bagshot) if they appeared in, say, Flaubert, are in decorum here, where the tone is the militant counterpart of irony, the satiric descent of fantasy on a moral canto fermo<\/em>.\u00a0 Third, the Mrs. Heartfree episode, which is typical of romance when the central figure is female & instead of killing dragons she fends off fucks.\u00a0 Cf. Spenser’s Florimell & Morris’s Birdalone.\u00a0 One might call it a quest of the perilous cunt.\u00a0 Very sharp counterpoint between the realism of JW [Jonathan Wild] & his whorish bride & this corny romanticism in which Mrs. H. gets through a dozen assaults unplumbed & returns “unsullied” to her husband.\u00a0 A good deal is said about Providence: Providence & Fortune are the existential projections of comic & tragic forms respectively.\u00a0 (CW<\/em>, 23, 249)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today is Henry Fielding‘s birthday (1707 – 1754). Here’s Frye on Jonathan Wild in Notebook 36: Jonathan Wild has suggested three main ideas.\u00a0 First, Wild is an ironic pharmakos, treated explicitly as a counterpart to “greatness.”\u00a0 What happens to him ought to happen to all “great” men: Wild is obviously criminal only because society is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","category-notebooks"],"yoast_head":"\nHenry Fielding - The Educated Imagination<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/04\/22\/henry-fielding\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Henry Fielding - The Educated Imagination\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Today is Henry Fielding‘s birthday (1707 – 1754). 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