Henry Fielding In Our Time: Papers Presented at the Tercentenary Conference

J. A. Downie

lis 2020 · Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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Henry Fielding In Our Time publishes many of the papers presented at the international conference held at the University of London 19-21 April 2007 to commemorate the tercentenary of his birth.

Written by established scholars, including the acknowledged doyen of Fielding scholars, Martin C. Battestin of the University of Virginia, as well as younger scholars who successfully bring their recent research to bear on neglected areas of Fielding’s life and works, the essays offer a cross-section of current approaches to Fielding and his writings, from his ballad operas, poetry and political journalism , via Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones and Amelia—the novels for which he is still best known—to the social pamphlets written during his years at Bow Street as magistrate for Westminster and Middlesex.

The collection should appeal both to undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as academics and general readers interested in the eighteenth-century in general, and Fielding’s contribution to the emergence and development of the novel form in particular.

O autorze

J. A. Downie is Professor of English at Goldsmiths’ College, University of London. His books include: Robert Harley and the Press: Propaganda and Public Opinion in the Age of Swift and Defoe (1979); Jonathan Swift, Political Writer (1984); and To Settle the Succession of the State: Literature and Politics, 1678-1750 (1994).