Mistura fina, ou a verdadeira história das Aventuras de David Simple

Abstract

The Adventures of David Simple, Sarah Fielding’s first novel published in 1744, was rediscovered by Anglo Saxon critics in the 1960’s who employed new perspectives that aimed at questioning earlier canonical assumptions regarding the modern novel as a genre. The aim of this research is to understand the contributions, to the history of the novel, of the main studies concerning David Simple, and also to propose a critical analysis that, approaching the narrative material, aims at exposing how the novel formulates, in the managing of its structure and themes, some of the fundamental issues in socioeconomic and literary English life in this period. Palavras-chave / keywords Romance – Inglaterra – seculo XVIII – Sarah Fielding – David Simple Novel – England – 18th century – Sarah Fielding – David Simple