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1 online resource (366 pages) |
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| Summary |
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 Field. |
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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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754 -- Political and social views.
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Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754. |
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Political and social views. |
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Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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Politics and literature. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
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18th century |
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Political fiction, English -- History and criticism.
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Political fiction, English. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cleary, Thomas R. Henry Fielding : A Political Writer. Waterloo : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©2006 9780889201316 |
| ISBN |
9780889208582 (electronic book) |
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0889208581 (electronic book) |
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