THE COVENT-GARDEN JOURNAL AND A PLAN OF THE UNIVERSAL-REGISTER OFFICE

Fielding, Henry; Goldgar. Bertrand A.

ISBN 10: 0819551678 / ISBN 13: 9780819551672

Edité par Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, 1988

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Octavo; 517 pages; VG-/G+; Tan and red Dustjacket spine with Black and tan text; Dustjacket has chipping to bottom corner of both covers, minor edgewear and shelfwear; Boards strong, clean; Textblock clean; RWO. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, Wegewood Section. 1360116. Special Collections.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: THE COVENT-GARDEN JOURNAL AND A PLAN OF THE UNIVERSAL-REGISTER OFFICE
• Éditeur: Wesleyan University Press, Middletown
• Date de parution: 1988
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0819551678
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780819551672
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First American Edition.
• État de la jaquette: Jaquette
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • European History
  • Politics, Government, and Law

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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.