English Language and Literature ETDs

Connie Capers

Publication Date

5-22-1970

Abstract

Many critics have noted the influence that Henry Fielding's years as a dramatist had on his career as a writer of prose fiction. However, none of these critics has attempted any detailed analysis of that influence. This dissertation will discuss the influence by examining in detail the narrator; the burlesque of form, fable, and language; the comical and farcical elements of the dramatized scenes; and marriage as a satiric object in the plays and prose fiction. Each had its beginnings in the plays, and each finds its way into the prose fiction. My hypothesis is that Fielding's prose fiction shows a definite maturing and developing of certain techniques that were first used in the plays.

Degree Name

English

Level of Degree

Doctoral

Department Name

English

First Committee Member (Chair)

Hoyt Trowbridge

Second Committee Member

James Llewellyn Thorson

Third Committee Member

Frederick Bolton Warner

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

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