“A Right Judgment”: Rape Trial Conventions Revisited in Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones
This article argues that in both Joseph Andrews (1742) and Tom Jones (1749), Henry Fielding, who practiced law and wrote novels when both were undergoing significant transformations, takes what could have been archetypal scenes of rape and rescue and makes them illuminating explorations of how jurie...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
SAGE Publications Ltd
2019
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | View Fulltext in Publisher |