Enquiry Into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers, and Related - Writing

Zusatztext 'Zirker covers a great breadth of ground! re-creating the historical context! identifying legal antecedents! and tracing correspondences between these pamphlets and other works by Fielding ... it could hardly have been done better.'Michael Irwin! University of Kent! Review of English Studies! Vol.XLI! No. 164! Nov '90 Informationen zum Autor > Klappentext A scholarly edition of works by Henry Fielding. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus. Zusammenfassung An Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers, and Related Writings provides critical unmodernized texts of Henry Fielding's legal and social pamphlets during the period 1749 to 1753, when Fielding served as magistrate for the City and Liberty of Westminster and County of Middlesex. The texts, for the first time, are fully annotated, and a lengthy introduction places them in their biographical and intellectual context, and provides a detailed account of their publication and reception. Five of the six pamphlets included in this volume clearly serve the interests of the Pelham Administration. There is, however, no evidence to show that Fielding wrote any of the pamphlets at the invitation or command of figures of power within the Pelham Administration; instead he appears simply to have seized those opportunities appropriate to his office to further government interests or, as with An Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers (1751) and A Proposal for Making an Effectual Provision for the Poor (1753), offered his own solutions to problems which Parliament was currently debating.

Product details

• Authors: Henry Fielding, Zirker
• Assisted by: Malvin R Zirker (Editor), Malvin R. Zirker (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.06.1988
• EAN: 9780198185161
• ISBN: 978-0-19-818516-1
• No. of pages: 462
• Series: Wesleyan Edition of the Works; The Wesleyan Edition of the Works of Henry Fielding; Wesleyan Edition of the Works
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories