Henry Fielding: A Political Writer
- ISBN-10
- 0889208581
- ISBN-13
- 9780889208582
- Series
- Henry Fielding
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 366
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006-01-01
- Publisher
- Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
- Author
- Thomas R. Cleary
Description
An accurate and comprehensive study of the political aspects of Fielding’s art has been sorely needed. As a result of decades of work by literary scholars and a series of great historians, such a study is finally possible. This volume addresses that need, and, in the light of a recent revival of interest in Fielding’s work, it arrives most opportunely. The author offers here a wide-ranging focus and a firm grip on the shifting complexities of Fielding’s political situations—the loyalties and enmities, factional alignments and fractious rhetoric—that allow a satisfactory understanding of Fielding’s political writing. Political writing in Fielding’s day, as in ours, was topical, concerned with evanescent problems and day-to-day needs that were familiar to contemporaries, but that are now recaptured only with greatest difficulty. This study constitutes a thorough reconstruction of Fielding’s political context and extricates from the context Fielding’s own political endeavours. Cleary’s work will make many of Felding’s previously unstudied work accessible to students and scholars of eighteenth-century English literature. A necessary point of reference to both literary specialists and historians concerned with eighteenth-century England.
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Other editions
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- 2009-03-01
- 10 pages
- Paperback
- Cambridge Scholars Pub
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- 2005-05-31
- 30 pages
- Paperback
- Houghton Library of the Harvard
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