Fielding's prepositional, textual inns

• Published in: Word & image (London. 1985) Vol. 37; no. 3; pp. 245 - 258
• Main Author: Wall, Cynthia
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Abingdon Routledge 03.07.2021; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: 18th century; Architecture; Bed & breakfast inns; British & Irish literature; Fielding, Henry (1707-1754); Henry Fielding; inns; Narrative techniques; Novels; prepositions; Syntax

As the Narrator in Henry Fielding's Joseph Andrews (1742) explains: "Those little Spaces between our Chapters may be looked upon as an Inn or Resting-Place." An inn is a prepositional sort of building: it is between here and there; one travels to or from it; it links villages and town...