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 History

Ralph 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 Fiction

David 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