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- W118680955 abstract "Ever since Ian Watt's analysis of Fielding's methods of characterization in The Rise of Novel (1957) critics have generally agreed with his thesis that Fielding presents his readers with outsides of his characters as opposed to Richardson who reveals his characters' inmost thoughts and psychological processes. At present two schools of thought attempt to account for why Fielding chose this method of characterization. The older of two, presided over by Martin Battestin, holds that Fielding wrote under influence of a theological school of thought that values works over faith. Accordingly, reasoning goes, he values what a man does over what he thinks or professes.1 The second, more recent school, derives from Lockian discussions of identity. Historians of ideas agree that Locke located human identity in ever-changing human psyche, a position that threatened traditional notions of moral responsibility, for if a man today is not same person he was yesterday, he cannot be held responsible now for his moral lapses in past.2 According to Ira Koningsberg, Fielding tries to fix Personal identity and make individual morally responsible, and he therefore must stay mostly outside his characters and not get caught in impermanence of human psyche.3 I would argue that there is a third, immediately context-related reason for Fielding's method of characterization in Tom Jones. The legal context in which novel was written, especially contemporary dispute over evidence, witnesses, and their credibility, helps explain a good deal about not only characterization, but about much else in novel as well. Remarkably little has been written about any possible connection between Fielding's knowledge of law and his novels in spite of fact that thirty years ago William Empson observed that the unusual thing about Fielding as a" @default.
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- W118680955 title "JUDGMENT AND CHARACTER, EVIDENCE AND THE LAW IN TOM JONES" @default.
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