| | §10. "Jonathan Wild". II. Fielding and Smollett. Vol. 10. The Age of Johnson. The Cambridge History of English and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | The point of view is a familiar one with Fielding, who was a sworn foe of pretentious appearances. |
 | | Its humour is often broadespecially in the passages relating to Miss Laetitia Snap, afterwards Mrs. |
 | | Jonathan Wild; but its merciless exposure of hypocrisy, meanness and cruelty, even more than the difference between the rewards ultimately meted out to greatness and to goodness, makes it a work of excellent morality. |
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