Table of Contents
Preface
Ideology and Form in Henry Fielding
The Closing of Masterpiece Theater: Henry Fielding and the Valorization of Incoherence
David H. Richter
Reply: Ideology and Literary Form: Novels at Work
Patricia Meyer Spacks
Reply: Ideology and Literary Form in Fielding : Tom Jones
John Richetti
Tom Jones
: The Form in HistoryRalph W. Rader
Making Fielding's Novels Speak for Law and Order
Gerald J. Butler
Closing Down the Theatre, and Other Critical Abuses
Carol Houlihan Flynn
Jonathan Wild
and True Crime FictionDavid H. Richter
Form and Ideology in Cultural History
The Question of Ideological Form: Arthur Young, the Agricultural Tour, and Ireland
Ina Ferris
Form as Meaning: Pope and the Ideology of the Couplet
J. Paul Hunter
The Rules of the Game; Or, Why Neoclassicism Was Never an Ideology
Trevor Ross
Desire and Mourning: The Ideology of the Elegy
George E. Haggerty
Inchbald's A Simple Story: An Anti-Ideological Reading
Michael Boardman
The Feminization of Ideology: Form and the Female in the Long Eighteenth Century
Laura Brown
Rebuttal
The Ends of Ideology: Politics and Literary Response
Lennard Davis
Afterword
Form and Formalists, Ideologies and Ideologues: A Polemical Conclusion
David Richter