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Jon Millington // March 29, 2007 at 3:42 pm
Places are still available for “Henry Fielding in Our Time”, 19-21 April 2007.
Prose fiction writer, playwright, periodical essayist, political pamphleteer, and occasional poet, Henry Fielding used all the forms available to the professional writer in mid-eighteenth-century England. The significance of Fielding’s intrusive narrator to the development of the novel has long been acknowledged, while according to George Bernard Shaw, Fielding was the greatest practising dramatist produced by England between the Middle Ages and the nineteenth century, with the single exception of Shakespeare. Instead of bemoaning the ‘irregular’ nature of Fielding’s plays, critics now recognize that, in his refusal to be tied down to conventional drama and conventional plots, he was ‘moving towards political cabaret’. However, as he was a pioneering reforming magistrate, tough on crime and on its causes, the consequence of Fielding’s career extends beyond the literary sphere. In turn, this tercentenary conference will explore the significance of Fielding in our time, as well as in his own.
Plenary speakers will include Robert D. Hume, J. Paul Hunter, Thomas Lockwood and Jane Spencer.
Registration Fees:
£70 standard; £50 Members/Concessions
Enquiries and Registration: Jon Millington, Events Officer, Institute of English Studies, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU; tel +44 (0) 207 664 4859; Email jon.millington@sas.ac.uk
Venue: the Institute of English Studies, University of London, Senate House, Malet St, London WC1E.
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