Resumen de Cervantes y la Quixotic Fiction: sucesión episódica y otros recursos narrativos
The study of Cervantine influence on the work of Henry Fielding has traditionally focused on Joseph Andrews, and, occasionally, on his play Don Quixote in England. Joseph Andrews has been taken as evidence of Cervantes¿ influence on Fielding and also on eighteenth-century British novelists, whereas Tom Jones was deemed the turning point at which Fielding discarded Cervantine influence to create his own novelistic pattern. Yet the structure in Tom Jones is organized according to a number of devices that Cervantes had employed in Don Quixote, namely entrelacement, parallel actions, flashbacks, and interpolated tales which, therefore, prove the Quixotic influence on Fielding¿s most celebrated novel.
