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,
“... 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 treated as the standard work, while Dudden’s book has had a bad press. In my undergraduate days I heard dons refer to ... ”
