Tres grandes escritores ingleses del siglo XIX se ocuparon de Fielding:
William Hazlitt, Lectures on the English comic writers, 1819.
Walter Scott, Lives of the novelists, cuatro vols., 18211824.
William M. Thackeray, The English humourists of the eighteenth century, 1853.
Dos biografías modernas:
Wilbur L. Cross, The history of Henry Fielding, tres vols., New Haven, Yale University Press, 1918.
F. Homes Duddon, Fielding, his life, works and times, dos vols., Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1952.
Crítica contemporánea:
Aurélien Digeon, Les romans de Fielding, París, 1923; trad. ingl., Londres, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1925.
Ronald S. Crane, «The concept of plot and the plot of Tom Jones», en Critics and criticism, Chicago, 1952.
Dorothy Van Ghent, The English novel, form and function, Nueva York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1953.
A. D. McKillop, The early masters of English fiction, Kansas, Lawrence, 1956; Londres, Constable, 1962.
Ian Watt, The rise of the novel, Londres, Chatto and Windus, 1957; reed, en Penguin Books, 1963.
John Butt, Fielding, Londres, Logmans, ed. revisada de 1959.
Maurice Johnson, Fielding’s art of fiction, Filadelfia, University of Philadelphia Press, 1961.
Ronald Paulson (ed.), Fielding: a collection of critical essays, Nueva York, Prentice Hall, 1962.
Andrew Wright, Henry Fielding, mask and feast, Londres, Chatto and Windus, 1965.
Robert Alter, Fielding and the nature of the novel, Harvard University Press, 1968.
Ronald Paulson y Thomas Lockwood (ed.), Henry Fielding: The critical heritage, Londres, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969.
C. J. Rawson, Henry Fielding and the augustan ideal under stress, Londres, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1972.
Simon Varey, Henry Fielding, Cambridge University Press, 1986.
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