Sarah Fielding and the Salic Law of Wit

2002 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 541-557 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Gadeken
Keyword(s):  
Sarah Fielding

scholarly journals Remarks on Richardson: Sarah Fielding and the Rational Reader

2009 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 309-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily C. Friedman
Keyword(s):  
Sarah Fielding

Sarah fielding

2000 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 327-346
Author(s):  
Gillian Skinner
Keyword(s):  
Sarah Fielding

Sarah Fielding (review)

1998 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 375-376
Author(s):  
Christopher D. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Sarah Fielding

Developments in Sentimental Fiction

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Sill
Keyword(s):  
Samuel Richardson ◽  
Laurence Sterne ◽  
Charlotte Lennox ◽  
Oliver Goldsmith ◽  
Sarah Fielding ◽  
Sentimental Fiction ◽  
Moral Sensibility ◽  
The Third ◽  
Henry Mackenzie ◽  
The Reformation

The sentimental strain in English fiction, which represents men of feeling and women of sensibility engaging in acts of sympathy and benevolence, became prominent in the 1760s through the novels of Charlotte Lennox, Oliver Goldsmith, Laurence Sterne, Henry Mackenzie, and others, building primarily on the work of Samuel Richardson and Henry and Sarah Fielding. The reformation of male manners, the feminization of taste and consumption, the grounding of ethics in human nature rather than rationalism or faith, and the emergence of a theory of moral sensibility all contributed to the popular reception of sentimental fiction. Frances Burney’s first two novels, Evelina and Cecilia, successfully combined sentiment with the comedy of Fielding and the moral sententiousness of Richardson, but in the third, Camilla, Burney felt the pressure of an increasing taste for realism, which eventually lessened the predominance, though it did not entirely eliminate, the sentimental form.

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