Honest Sins : Georgian Libertinism and the Plays and Novels of Henry Fielding ISBN: 9780773567559 Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / McGill-Queen''s University Press Digital rights:Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a Time Subjects: Literature;
Originally cruel, manipulative, and self-serving, during the eighteenth century the Restoration rake evolved into a more cheerful sinner: the good-natured libertine. While Tom Jones was Henry Fielding's most complete embodiment of this new ideal, Tiffany Potter shows that the revised Georgian libertinism informs and illuminates all of his work.