Anaclara Castro teaches English Literature at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She obtained her PhD at the University of York, UK in 2014. She has published academic articles on Henry Fielding, Lawrence Sterne, and William Hogarth. She is interested in the relations between the theatre and the novel in the long eighteenth century.

‘Castro’s book is an important one for scholars of the eighteenth century: by illuminating the centrality of the marriage plot, it offers fresh, cogent arguments about Fielding’s drama and the relationship between theatre and fiction in the period.’ Emma Major, Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of York‘This is not only a book that reshapes our perceptions of Henry Fielding’s literary achievement. Anaclara Castra Santana reveals that the marriage plot is at the heart of the ethics and aesthetics of the most popular genres of the eighteenth century: the novel and the theatre ’ -- Ros Ballaster, Faculty of English, Mansfield College, University of Oxford

• Section 1: Fielding’s Theatrical Productions between 1728 and 1737Chapter 1: An Examination of Fielding’s 9 Year Dramatic CareerChapter 2: Fielding’s Transition between Theatre and Prose FictionSection 2: Early Novels between 1741 and 1746Chapter 3: ShamelaChapter 4: Jonathan WildChapter Five: The Female Husband Section 3: Tom Jones and Amelia, Novels of Fielding’s MaturityChapter 6: Tom JonesChapter 7: Amelia

Anaclara Castro teaches English Literature at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She obtained her PhD at the University of York, UK in 2014. She has published academic articles on Henry Fielding, Lawrence Sterne, and William Hogarth. She is interested in the relations between the theatre and the novel in the long eighteenth century.

‘Castro’s book is an important one for scholars of the eighteenth century: by illuminating the centrality of the marriage plot, it offers fresh, cogent arguments about Fielding’s drama and the relationship between theatre and fiction in the period.’ Emma Major, Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of York‘This is not only a book that reshapes our perceptions of Henry Fielding’s literary achievement. Anaclara Castra Santana reveals that the marriage plot is at the heart of the ethics and aesthetics of the most popular genres of the eighteenth century: the novel and the theatre ’ -- Ros Ballaster, Faculty of English, Mansfield College, University of Oxford

• Section 1: Fielding’s Theatrical Productions between 1728 and 1737Chapter 1: An Examination of Fielding’s 9 Year Dramatic CareerChapter 2: Fielding’s Transition between Theatre and Prose FictionSection 2: Early Novels between 1741 and 1746Chapter 3: ShamelaChapter 4: Jonathan WildChapter Five: The Female Husband Section 3: Tom Jones and Amelia, Novels of Fielding’s MaturityChapter 6: Tom JonesChapter 7: Amelia

Anaclara Castro teaches English Literature at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She obtained her PhD at the University of York, UK in 2014. She has published academic articles on Henry Fielding, Lawrence Sterne, and William Hogarth. She is interested in the relations between the theatre and the novel in the long eighteenth century.

‘Castro’s book is an important one for scholars of the eighteenth century: by illuminating the centrality of the marriage plot, it offers fresh, cogent arguments about Fielding’s drama and the relationship between theatre and fiction in the period.’ Emma Major, Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of York‘This is not only a book that reshapes our perceptions of Henry Fielding’s literary achievement. Anaclara Castra Santana reveals that the marriage plot is at the heart of the ethics and aesthetics of the most popular genres of the eighteenth century: the novel and the theatre ’ -- Ros Ballaster, Faculty of English, Mansfield College, University of Oxford

• Section 1: Fielding’s Theatrical Productions between 1728 and 1737Chapter 1: An Examination of Fielding’s 9 Year Dramatic CareerChapter 2: Fielding’s Transition between Theatre and Prose FictionSection 2: Early Novels between 1741 and 1746Chapter 3: ShamelaChapter 4: Jonathan WildChapter Five: The Female Husband Section 3: Tom Jones and Amelia, Novels of Fielding’s MaturityChapter 6: Tom JonesChapter 7: Amelia