English Novel [ Literary & Artistic genres ]
… ed. Henry Morley, The Spectator, vol. 1 (London: George Routledge and Sons, 1891). Project Gutenberg. /node/586 The present study of literary interactions though interposed books stems from a two-fold examination of titles and dates of … 10 endorsed by some of their contemporaries – a tendency defined by Lennard Davis as the claim ‘that they are presenting not a fiction but a factual account of some real series of events’ (Lennard 120): it was the case of Fielding, … ‘battle of the wits’, 15 recalls according to critics Swift’s Battle of the Books mentioned in the introduction of the present entry. What started as a form of ‘friendly enmity’ between Fielding and Hill, designed to stimulate the sales of …
Antagonism | Conflict | Fiction | Parody | Rivalry
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