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Zusatztext This first-rate edition maintains the excellent standard set by the Wes;eyan edition of Fielding's works. This volume, which completes the edition's coverage of Henry Fielding's journalism, provides a view of eighteenth-century journalism very different from the more genteel Tatler-Spectator tradition, and complicates the familiar image of Fielding the moralist. Fielding's contributions to TheChampion are not only among his most energetic and intriguing works in the genre; they also have a dense political background, of interest to historians studying the interface between journalism and politicians of the time, as well as the role of newspaper publishers. Zusammenfassung This volume completes the edition's coverage of Henry Fielding's journalism, which occupied a far greater part of his time than has been traditionally acknowledged. His contributions to The Champion are not only among his most energetic and intriguing works in the genre; they also have a dense political background, of interest to historians studying the interface between journalism and politicians of the time, as well as the role of newspaper publishers. Walpole figures hugely, and the extent to which Fielding hints at the minister's life and activities is remarkable. Much of the volume's material has never been reprinted before. Explanatory annotations are full, as the characteristically allusive and topical nature of Fielding's writing requires. Appendices provide an analytical textual apparatus, and the editorial introductions emphasize matters such as genesis and composition, circumstances of publication, in addition to immediate biographical, literary, and historical backgrounds. Abbreviations and Cue Titles; General Introduction; Textual Introduction; TEXTS; From Common Sense 21 May 1737, the 'Pasquin' Letter; From Common Sense 13 May 1738, the 'Mum-Budget' Letter; Contributions to The Champion; The Veroniad; The Opposition. A Vision; The Charge to the Jury (1745); Appendices: (a) First Letter from the 'Adventurer'; (b) The 'Adventurer's' Reply to 'Pasquin'; (c) Chesterfield's Speech in the Lords; List of Substantive Emendations; Word-Division; Bibliography; Doubtful Attributions: (a) The Crisis. A Sermon (1741); (b) An Attempt towards a Natural History of the Hanover Rat (1744); Index...
