03352nam 2200757Ia 450 991096163300332120240912162818.09780889208582088920858110.51644/9780889208582(CKB)1000000000713593(EBL)685562(OCoLC)753479476(SSID)ssj0000672552(PQKBManifestationID)11457296(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000672552(PQKBWorkID)10635612(PQKB)10110991(CaPaEBR)402625(CaBNvSL)jme00326880(OCoLC)243567141(MdBmJHUP)muse48023(Au-PeEL)EBL685562(CaPaEBR)ebr10147182(PPN)250538636(DE-B1597)667203(DE-B1597)9780889208582(FR-PaCSA)88899349(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/10b6g9(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/2/402625(MiAaPQ)EBC685562(MiAaPQ)EBC3246164(FRCYB88899349)88899349(Perlego)1706295(EXLCZ)99100000000071359319840301d1984 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrHenry Fielding, political writer /Thomas R. Cleary1st ed.Waterloo, Ont., Canada Wilfrid Laurier University Pressc19841 online resource (366 p.)Includes index.9781554584543 155458454X 9780889201316 0889201315 Includes bibliography and index.Contents; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; One. Prolegomena: George Lyttelton, the Broad-Bottoms, and the Pattern of Fielding's Political Career; Two. Fielding's Early Career: 1728-35; Three. Pasquin and the Haymarket: 1736-37; Four. The Final Assault on Walpole: 1739-42; Five. Fielding and the ""New"" Opposition: 1742-44; Six. Fielding and the Jacobites, 1745-49: The True Patriot to Tom Jones; Seven. The Final Phase: 1749-54; Notes; Selective Bibliography; IndexAn 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 FiPolitics and literatureGreat BritainHistory18th centuryPolitical fiction, EnglishHistory and criticismPolitics and literatureHistoryPolitical fiction, EnglishHistory and criticism.823/.5Cleary Thomas R(Thomas Raymond),1940-1799081MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910961633003321Henry Fielding, political writer4342224UNINA