1st Edition

Henry Fielding A Life

By Martin C Battestin Copyright 1989
792 Pages
by Routledge

792 Pages
by Routledge

792 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1989, Henry Fielding is a biography presenting a fresh interpretation of Fielding’s life and thought. Using newly discovered information, including new facts, three hitherto unknown pictures of Fielding drawn from life, documents, manuscripts, and many crucially important and engrossing new letters, Martin C. Battestin – the foremost Fielding scholar – illuminates every... Read more

List of Illustrations Preface 1. A West Country boyhood and Eton (1707-26) 2. Playwright and libertine (1727-39) 3. Politics, novels, and the law (1739-49) 4. Magistrate and reformer (1749-54) 5. Consequences Notes Bibliography Appendixes

Biography

Martin C. Battestin