The Covent-Garden Journal and A Plan of the Universal Register-Office
Series: The Wesleyan Edition of the Works of Henry Fielding;
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 15 December 1988
- ISBN 9780198185093
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages580 pages
- Size 242x163x33 mm
- Weight 922 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 2 halftones 0
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Short description:
A scholarly edition of works by Henry Fielding. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.
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As Henry Fielding's last effort at sustained journalism, the Covent-Garden Journal (1752) significantly reflects the literary, moral, and social ideas of a major novelist in the final years of his life. Freed from the burden of political propagandizing which had dominated his earlier journalism, Fielding here addressed himself directly to social satire, literary criticism, and moral instruction in essays that are strikingly rooted in the everyday life of mid-century London. The Journal is thus an essential text not only for students of Fielding but for anyone concerned with the social and literary history of the period.
The general introduction explains the connection between the Journal and the brief pamphlet A Plan of the Universal Register-Office (1751) and places them in Fielding's career; it then describes the journalistic background, major themes, and immediate reception of the Covent-Garden Journal. Full explanatory notes are provided for all topical and historical allusions.
The text of the Plan has not been reprinted since the eighteenth century. The present text of the Journal, incorporating a recent discovery of revisions in Fielding's hand, offers in an appendix a column about Fielding's magistracy not previously reprinted. Other appendices provide a complete record of all textual amendations.
`The texts have been brilliantly edited by Professor Bertrand Goldgar. The challenge posed by this form of ephemeral material is prodigious and it is hard to imagine how the job could bave been better done.
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