“I am, in reality, the founder of a new province of writing” : narrative performance and consumption in Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones.

• Main Author: Yeo, Shu Fang.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/49530
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Critics of 'Tom Jones' have derided the ‘intrusive’ and ‘garrulous’ narrator, or otherwise attempted to justify the authorial voice of the narrator as ancillary to the ‘main’ plot of Tom’s story. In this essay, I propose to reconceive an alternative aspect of the explicit narratorial activ...