LEADER 03352nam 2200757Ia 450 001 9910961633003321 005 20240912162818.0 010 $a9780889208582 010 $a0889208581 024 7 $a10.51644/9780889208582 035 $a(CKB)1000000000713593 035 $a(EBL)685562 035 $a(OCoLC)753479476 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000672552 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11457296 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000672552 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10635612 035 $a(PQKB)10110991 035 $a(CaPaEBR)402625 035 $a(CaBNvSL)jme00326880 035 $a(OCoLC)243567141 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse48023 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL685562 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10147182 035 $a(PPN)250538636 035 $a(DE-B1597)667203 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780889208582 035 $a(FR-PaCSA)88899349 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/10b6g9 035 $a(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/2/402625 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC685562 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3246164 035 $a(FRCYB88899349)88899349 035 $a(Perlego)1706295 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000713593 100 $a19840301d1984 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHenry Fielding, political writer /$fThomas R. Cleary 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aWaterloo, Ont., Canada $cWilfrid Laurier University Press$dc1984 215 $a1 online resource (366 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 08$a9781554584543 311 08$a155458454X 311 08$a9780889201316 311 08$a0889201315 320 $aIncludes bibliography and index. 327 $aContents; 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; Index 330 $aAn 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 Fi 606 $aPolitics and literature$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aPolitical fiction, English$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aPolitics and literature$xHistory 615 0$aPolitical fiction, English$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a823/.5 700 $aCleary$b Thomas R$g(Thomas Raymond),$f1940-$01799081 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910961633003321 996 $aHenry Fielding, political writer$94342224 997 $aUNINA