Fielding in the dock
Claude Rawson, 5 April 1990
Henry Fielding: A Life
by Martin Battestin and Ruthe Battestin.
Routledge, 738 pp., £29.50, October 1989,0 415 01438 7 Show More
by Martin Battestin and Ruthe Battestin.
Routledge, 738 pp., £29.50, October 1989,
New Essays
by Henry Fielding, edited by Martin Battestin.
Virginia, 604 pp., $50, November 1989,0 8139 1221 0 Show More
by Henry Fielding, edited by Martin Battestin.
Virginia, 604 pp., $50, November 1989,
The Wesleyan Edition of the Works of Henry Fielding. The True Patriot, and Related Writings
edited by W.B. Coley.
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edited by W.B. Coley.
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An Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers, and Related Writings
edited by Malvin Zirker.
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edited by Malvin Zirker.
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The Covent-Garden Journal and A Plan of the Universal Register Office
by Henry Fielding, edited by Bertrand Goldgar.
Oxford, 446 pp., £50, December 1988,0 19 818511 1 Show More
by Henry Fielding, edited by Bertrand Goldgar.
Oxford, 446 pp., £50, December 1988,
Fielding and the Woman Question: The Novels of Henry Fielding and the Feminist Debate 1700-1750
by Angela Smallwood.
Harvester, 230 pp., £35, March 1989,0 7108 0639 6 Show More
by Angela Smallwood.
Harvester, 230 pp., £35, March 1989,
“... has been no full-scale biography of Fielding since 1952, though a very good short life by Pat Rogers appeared in 1979. The two principal biographies, still widely used as works of reference, and which Martin Battestin’s long-awaited volume is designed to supersede, are those of Wilbur Cross (1918) and F. Homes Dudden (1952). Cross has usually been ... ”
