Fieldingesque

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English

Etymology

From Fielding +‎ -esque.

Adjective

Fieldingesque (comparative more Fieldingesque, superlative most Fieldingesque)

  1. In the style of the novelist and dramatist Henry Fielding
    • 2006, Brean Hammond, Shaun Regan, Making the Novel: Fiction and Society in Britain, 1660-1789:
      Sexually frank and verbally inventive, Cleland's text constitutes an intriguing response to the dual claims of Richardsonian and Fieldingesque fiction.
    • 2011, Peter L. Hays, The Critical Reception of Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, page 69:
      But the only examples that Benson provides of this separate Fieldingesque perspective are the novel's title and what he calls the self-pitying epigraph from Gertrude Stein (ibid.).
    • 2017, W M Verhoeven, Claudia L Johnson, Philip Cox, Anti-Jacobin Novels, Part II:
      The reader finds him/herself in a Fieldingesque landscape full of ruddy life but marked by scepticism about human motivation and about enthusiasm and pretension in all its guises.