Fieldingesque

English Etymology From en Fielding esque. Adjective In the style of the novelist and dramatist Henry Fielding en 2006 Making the Novel: Fiction and Society in Britain, 1660-1789 Brean Hammond; Shaun Regan Sexually frank and verbally inventive, Cleland's text constitutes an intriguing response to the dual claims of Richardsonian and Fieldingesque fiction. en 2011 The Critical Reception of Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises Peter L. Hays 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.). en 2017 Anti-Jacobin Novels, Part II W M Verhoeven; Claudia L Johnson; Philip Cox 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. en eponyms