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The Fool of Quality
''The Fool of Quality; or, The History of Henry, Earl of Moreland'' (1765-70), a picaresque and sentimental novel by the Irish writer Henry Brooke, is the only one of his works which has enjoyed any great reputation.〔H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison (eds.) ''The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' vol. 7, p. 897. A. W. Ward and A. R. Waller (eds.) ''The Cambridge History of English Literature'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1913) vol. 10, p. 60: "He lives, indeed, by ''The Fool of Quality'', and by that alone".〕 The somewhat shapeless plot is an account of the doings of young Harry Clinton, who, rejected by his decadent and aristocratic father, is educated on enlightened principles by his philanthropic uncle. Thus equipped to fight the evils of the world the innocent yet wise hero does his best to better the lot of the unfortunate Hammel Clement and his family, and other deserving cases, in the intervals between the author’s frequent philosophical digressions and commentaries on the action.
== Influences ==
''The Fool of Quality'', it has been said, was
more deeply stamped with the seal of Rousseau — the Rousseau of the second ''Discourse'' and of ''Émile'' — than is any other book of the period…Before we can find anything approaching to this keenness of feeling, this revolt against the wrongs of the social system, we have to go forward to the years immediately succeeding the outbreak of the French revolution.〔A. W. Ward and A. R. Waller (eds.) ''The Cambridge History of English Literature'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1913) vol. 10, p. 59.〕
It was also strongly influenced by John Locke's ''On Education'', by the writings of the Christian mystic Jakob Böhme, and by the spirit of the Methodist movement.〔Margaret Drabble (eds.) ''The Oxford Companion to English Literature'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006) p. 372; George Sampson ''The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature'' (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1957) p. 495; A. W. Ward and A. R. Waller (eds.) ''The Cambridge History of English Literature'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1913) vol. 10, p. 59.〕
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