THE MASQUERADE: HUMOR, REALITY AND FICTION IN HENRY FIELDING’S WORKS
Resumo
The eighteenth century was a decisive period for the rise and consolidation of the English novel. Considering Henry Fielding’s (1707-1754) importance in such process, this article aims to analyze the relationship between fiction and reality in some of his works — with emphasis on Joseph Andrews (1742) and its preface, but also considering Shamela (1741) and Tom Jones (1749). For such relationship, the construction of humor or comic is crucial, because the affectation is, in Fielding's view, the only source of the true ridiculousness present in the world. It is through affectation that fiction and reality come together in their idiosyncrasies and interpenetrations, which allows Fielding to subvert and raise to absurdity the quest for factuality that was common to novels at the time.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.47295/mgren.v8i2.2018Referências
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