Fieldingesque

English

Etymology

From Fielding +‎ -esque.

Adjective

Fieldingesque (comparative more Fieldingesque, superlative most Fieldingesque)

1. In the style of the novelist and dramatist Henry Fielding
   • 2006, Brean Hammond, Shaun Regan, Making the Novel: Fiction and Society in Britain, 1660-1789:

     Sexually frank and verbally inventive, Cleland's text constitutes an intriguing response to the dual claims of Richardsonian and Fieldingesque fiction.

   • 2011, Peter L. Hays, The Critical Reception of Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, page 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.).

   • 2017, W M Verhoeven, Claudia L Johnson, Philip Cox, Anti-Jacobin Novels, Part II:

     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.