Landed patriarchy in Fielding's novels

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Makes use of a layered analysis of Fielding to rethink larger cultural patterns at work in 18th-century Britain, moving from the kind of surface dissonance many critics have noted to a deeper level of political coherence to still deeper ideological fluidities. Offers fresh evidence and arguments for the traditional critical alignment of Fielding with landed conservatism, and follows the implications of that alignment into the arena of gender politics. Of interest to traditional Fielding scholars, as well as feminist scholars, 18th- century scholars, and historians of the novel. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.