Errors and Reconciliations

"Henry Fielding is most well known for his monumental novel Tom Jones. Though it is not necessarily common knowledge, he started his literary career as a dramatist and eventually transitioned to writing novels. Though vastly different in their approaches and subjects, there is a common thread in the works that spanned his career: marriage. Errors and reconciliations: marriage in the plays and novels of Henry Fielding explores this theme, focussing on Fielding's fascination with matrimony and the ever-present paradoxical nature of marriage in the first half of the eighteenth century as a state easily attained but nearly impossible to escape"--Publisher's description.