The Critical Reception Accorded the Novels of Henry Fielding in France During the Eighteenth Century
Abstract
A continuous interchange of forms and ideas and a tendency to submit to similar influences characterize the whole history of the literatures of England and France. Parallels may be traced from the early Romanization of Britain and Gaul, and though the development of the lan- guages experienced wide deviations due to differing ethnic combinations, a considerable part of the substance of both literatures through the first fifteen centuries of their development was drawn from common Latin sources. In the time of Chaucer and John Gower, evidences of such usage in English literature were multiplied, and Eliza- bethan composition is intimately bound up with contem- porary French, Italian, and Spanish authorship.
Subject Area
Art Criticism|Modern literature|British and Irish literature
Recommended Citation
Mitchell, Basil Manley, "The Critical Reception Accorded the Novels of Henry Fielding in France During the Eighteenth Century" (1957). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI28622545.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI28622545
