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The Reader in Fielding


The Reader in Fielding

Original article

Lothar Černý . "Reader Participation and Rationalism in Fielding's Tom Jones." Connotations Vol. 2.2: 137-62.

Responses:

Brean S. Hammond . "Mind the Gap": A Comment on Lothar Černý Connotations 3: 72-78

Nicholas Hudson . Fielding and the "Sagacious Reader": A Response to Lothar Černý Connotations 3: 79-84

Lothar Černý . Fielding, Reception Theory and Rationalism: A Reply to Brean Hammond and Nicholas Hudson Connotations 3: 85-89

Bernard Harrison . Gaps and Stumbling-Blocks in Fielding: A Response to Černý, Hammond and Hudson Connotations 3: 147-72

Lothar Černý . "But the poet ... never affirmeth": A Reply to Bernard Harrison Connotations 3: 312-17

Mark Loveridge . Tom Jones and the 'Clare-obscure': A Response to Andrew Varney, Bernard Harrison, and Lothar Černý Connotations 4: 136-50

Leona Toker . If Everything Else Fails, Read the Instructions: Further Echoes of the Reception-Theory Debate Connotations 4: 151-64

If you feel inspired to write a response, please send it to editors(at)connotations.de

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