...something new and comprehensive in scope. As Fielding states in Tom Jones (1749): "I am, in reality, the Founder of a new Province of Writing, so I am at Liberty to make what laws I please therein."32 In eighteenth-century England the novel incorporates many of the smaller didactic forms...

...the narrator is essentially tyrannical, as is evident in his assertion that in his new province he is "at liberty to make what Laws I please therein. And...my subjects, are bound to believe in and to obey" (1: 77). He continues the metaphor of sovereignty, assuring us that he does not practice a jure divino...

...Factor and the Narrative Exhaustion of the Eighteenth-Century Novel Robert Scott As I am, in reality, the Founder of a new Province of Writing, so I am at liberty to make what Laws I please therein. — Tomjones IN HIS 1960 NOVEL THE SOT-WEED FACTOR JOHN BARTH OFFERS A MOCKepic, pseudohistorical work...

...Henry Fielding would declare in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1749) that "I am, in reality, the founder of a new province of writing, so I am at liberty to make whatever laws I please therein." The first science fiction, the first children's books, and the first...

...myself as accountable to any court of critical jurisdiction whatever: for as I am, in reality, thé founder of a new province of writing, so I am at liberty to make what laws I please therein » (II, 1, p. 68). Cette reprise dans Tom Jones de la revendication de la préface de Joseph Andrews...