The significance and appropriateness of the interpolated tale in Henry Fielding’s novels, Jonathan Wild, Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones and Amelia, is the subject of much discussion. Despite the attention devoted to the interpolated tale, there is no unanimity of opinion concerning what should be censured nor why it should be condemned. The lack of agreement over what constitutes an interpolated tale has given rise to conflicting opinions and statements.The interpolated tale, as Fielding develops it, has a retrospective quality and generally relates a character's experience or life history. The narration of the tale provides the listener with a contrasting standard to which he can compare his own values. Moreover, Fielding's utilization of the interpolated tale incorporates it into the structure of the novel.As a result of its incorporation into the structure of the novel, the interpolated tale has a thematic and structural relationship to the main narrative. Fielding uses the interpolated tale to expand his comments on the themes of appearance and reality, greatness and goodness, prudence and affectation. Affectation, Fielding believes, is a universal shortcoming of mankind that appears either as vanity or hypocrisy. Vanity is a consequence of an individual falling short of his desired reputation. But hypocrisy arises from an individual's attempts to project an image that is the reverse of his true nature. The latter form is found most frequently in the city where men attempt to impress others more often. The former variety occurs more frequently in a rural setting because men can be more honest in the country. Just as the tale has a thematic purpose, so it also becomes part of the structure of the novel. The tales narrated by characters in the novel are amalgamated into the basic narrative itself and thus contribute to the development of the plot. Whether the interpolated tales have an autobiographical element or not, they become an integral part of the novel.The interpolated tale, in Fielding's novels, functions much as the rehearsal or scene-within-a-scene does in his dramas. Fielding employs the rehearsal scene to expand the range of his comment upon society and its problems and refines the technique to meet his needs in developing the novel. In Jonathan, Wild, Mrs. Heartfree's tale unifies the narrative by relating Fielding's development of the Wild and Heartfree episodes to the theme of affectation. "The History of Leonora" and "The History of Two Friends" in Joseph Andrews provide examples of affectation for the edification of the characters, and Mr. Wilson's history recounts the consequences of inadequate training. The three interpolated tales in Tom Jones, the Quaker's the Man of the Hill's, and Mrs. Fitzpatrick.'s, are related for the benefit of the listeners and specify the results of affectation. The tales in Amelia, Miss Matthews', Captain Booth's, Mrs. Bennet's, and Captain Trent's, provide a further commentary on affectation and its consequences. A further refinement of the rehearsal scene developed by Fielding centers around his development of the rehearsal scene as a precursor to the flashback. In Amelia, Fielding begins the novel in media res and employs the interpolated tale to provide background information.Fielding's adaptation of the rehearsal scene to fit the needs of his novels constitutes an example of his keen perception of the applicability of the device to another genre. Through his skillful development of the interpolated tale, Fielding has contributed significantly to the evolution of the novel.

Poet, playwright, journalist, and novelist, Henry Fielding produced a striking variety of works in his literary career. A large portion of these works are filled with satire. The numerous farces, burlesques and comedies Fielding produced as a dramatist relied heavily for their appeal on the social, literary and political satire they contained. The irony and derision in these works was directed at specific elements in his society which Fielding felt merited exposure. His pose was that of the Augustan satirist ridiculing the folly he witnessed around him. Fielding's first attempts at prose were also satirical, with many of the targets the same as those he had attacked in his plays. However, the nature of his satire began to change, to take on moral overtones as he began to concentrate on larger, more fundamental problems concerning man and his relation to society. Jonathan Wild, Fielding's most sustained satire in the Augustan manner, is the first of his works to fully reveal the author's preoccupation with moral issues of his day. In this satire Fielding's concern is with the principles that govern human behaviour and the whole question of good and evil in man's nature. This type of moral satire is carried further in Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones where Fielding sets out not only to ridicule society's follies, but also to portray a way of life as a norm of behaviour for the common man. He is no longer the satirist concentrating on the evil in society, for as novelist he must portray society with all its intricate blendings of good and evil. Even in his comic novels,however, Fielding never completely abandoned the role of satirist, and it is the changing nature of the satire in his works as he switched from dramatist to novelist that I discuss in this thesis. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate

The primary purpose of the study was to examine, analyze, and describe teacher behavior in physical education classes in selected schools in Northeast Arkansas with regard to teacher function, direction, mode, and substance. Another purpose of the study was to compare the subjects' perception of their classroom behavior with actual observed behavior with regard to teacher functions. A third purpose of the study was to compare the findings of the total group. A final purpose of the study was to compare the findings of this study with the findings of similar studies in another geographic area.In order to examine the research questions above, a series of demographic descriptors was collected on each subject prior to observation. Three consecutive and two random visits were made to observe the classroom behavior of each teacher; all information was prepared for computer analysis; and all data were computer analyzed. Six null hypotheses were tested by using chi-square analysis. The 0.05 level of significance was established as the critical probability level for the rejection of hypotheses.Findings1. In six instances, there was a significant difference in the teachers' perceptions of how time was spent in the classroom and the actual observed classroom behavior with regard to the ten teacher functions.2. There was no significant difference at the 0.05 level between the results of the Northeast Arkansas, 1985, study and previous studies in another geographic area with regard to the teacher function dimension.3. Observed professional teacher direction dimension of this study population revealed some findings not consistent with findings in another geographic area.4. Observed professional teacher mode dimension of the study population of Northeast Arkansas revealed a lack of consistency with some findings of earlier studies in another geographic area.5. Multi-racial classes did not cause an alteration in professional teacher function dimension, direction dimension, mode dimension, or substance dimension.6. Teachers in the study population of Northeast Arkansas, 1985, developed unit plans and daily lesson plans, and varied teaching styles and substance.Conclusions1. A difference exists between teacher perceptions of their behavior in the classroom and their actual behavior in the classroom with regard to the teacher function dimension.2. It is not clear whether geographic location of the study group was a factor since the findings produced conflicting results with regard to teacher behaviors.3. Race of teacher revealed no significant difference in teacher behaviors with regard to teacher function dimension, direction dimension, mode dimension, and substance dimension.4. All teachers in the study population developed unit plans.5. Seventeen percent of the time, the teachers in the study population employed no daily lesson plans.6. Teachers participating in the Northeast Arkansas, 1985, study employed variety in teaching styles.

This thesis, entitled "Too Fond to Be Here Related": Ironic Didacticism and the Moral Analogy in Henry Fielding's "Amelia" (1751), opens by exploring the current and historical critical reception of Fielding's final extended work of fiction. In an effort to explain Amelia's "failure"---the prevailing assessment among even its more sympathetic critics---I then argue that this experimental novel offers an innovative engagement with David Hume's moral philosophy. The emerging analogy provides a fascinating but previously neglected departure from Samuel Richardson's means of providing moral instruction through a sentimental appeal to upholding a specific social contract; Fielding's unsteady narrator and provocative paradoxical treatment of the novel's protagonists invite us to appreciate the link between Amelia and the progressive social protest novels of the later eighteenth century.

It was noted that the characters in Fielding's novels cast in authority roles, mainly clergy, magistrates, squires and parents, are used for some of the same purposes as is the persona or narrative voice, but are distinct from it. There is a fairly clear dichotomy between evil or false character authority figures and good or true character authority figures, the latter of which are used as spokesmen for and examples of Fielding's religious and ethical beliefs. It was also noted that there is a trend away from the prominent "good man" as a major authority figure in "Joseph Andrews" which culminates in an austere major authority figure who is frequently absent from the action in "Amelia", and that there is a growing number and prominence of evil or false authority figures. This thesis undertook to examine the nature and extent of the influence of the character authority figures on the world view and tone of each novel. First, the thesis established the ethical and religious values which Fielding uses his authority figures to support. That Fielding was widely read in both religious doctrine and classical ethics is evident from his fictional and critical writings and from the contents of his library at his death. Fielding's character authority figures especially reflect his beliefs and his gradual movement away from an optimistic world view. The authority figures in the three major novels were then examined in terms of Fielding's values. The comic features of Parson Adams, the major authority figure in "Joseph Andrews", were reconciled with his position as an ethical and doctrinal touchstone, and a latitudinarian interpretation of New Testament theology was found to be a major basis for Adams' authority. The effect the minor authority figures have on authority was also established, again in terms of latitudinarian Christian doctrine. "Tom Jones" was examined in terms of its occasional focus on authority and on the major authority figure, Squire Allworthy, as a Providential agent. Allworthy, as a good man, a patriarch, a magistrate and a guardian, was also shown to be the examplar for social, religious, judicial and parental authority in the novel. He is, however, more detached from the action and less loveable than Adams was, and this distancing of the major authority figure from the other characters and from the reader helps to make "Tom Jones" less comic and less optimistic than is "Joseph Andrews". "Amelia" is filled with evil and false authority figures, and it was shown that the major good authority figure, although intended as a good man and a Providential agent, is not successfully presented as such and is also too detached from the action to provide a consistent sense of a controlling authority figure by whose mediation the sympathetic characters will be protected or ultimately rescued. The thesis showed that the character authority figures in "Joseph Andres", "Tom Jones" and "Amelia" are instrumental in establishing the world view. The success or lack thereof of the presentation of the major authority figure as a Providential agent and as a "good man" and his amount of participation in the plot are important contributing delements to the degree of optimism in each novel. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate

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This thesis has explored the portrayal of the clerical figure in Fielding's four novels: Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones, Amelia, and Jonathan Wild. Through the use of non- fiction accounts of the period, certain characteristic virtues and vices of the order are ascertained. Fielding's own essays in The True Patriot and The Champion are also analyzed in some detail, in order that further insight into his true feelings toward the clergy might be established.In addition to giving particular attention to the major clerical figures alone, the minor portraits and the famili6s of the clerics are also considered. Comments concerning the clergy, made by non-clerical characters, have also been considered in order that a more complete picture might be obtained.

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