The Covent-Garden Journal and A Plan of the Universal Register-Office
Clarendon Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-818509-3 (ISBN)
As Henry Fielding's last effort at sustained journalism, the Covent-Garden Journal (1752) significantly reflects the literary, moral, and social ideas of a major novelist in the final years of his life. Freed from the burden of political propagandizing which had dominated his earlier journalism, Fielding here addressed himself directly to social satire, literary criticism, and moral instruction in essays that are strikingly rooted in the everyday life of mid-century London. The Journal is thus an essential text not only for students of Fielding but for anyone concerned with the social and literary history of the period.
The general introduction explains the connection between the Journal and the brief pamphlet A Plan of the Universal Register-Office (1751) and places them in Fielding's career; it then describes the journalistic background, major themes, and immediate reception of the Covent-Garden Journal. Full explanatory notes are provided for all topical and historical allusions.
The text of the Plan has not been reprinted since the eighteenth century. The present text of the Journal, incorporating a recent discovery of revisions in Fielding's hand, offers in an appendix a column about Fielding's magistracy not previously reprinted. Other appendices provide a complete record of all textual amendations.
Henry Fielding
Abbreviations. Part 1 General introduction: "A Plan of the Universal Register-Office; the register office and the background of the "Covent-Garden Journal"; the "Covent-Garden Journal". Part 2 Textual introduction: the copy-text and its treatment; the apparatus; collation. Part 3 "A Plan of the Universal Register Office". Part 4 The "Covent-Garden" Journal". Appendices: two columns of doubtful authorship from the "Court of Censorial Enquiry"; the "Modern History" columns; list of emendations - "A Plan..."; list of substantive emendations - "Covent-Garden Journal"; list of accidentals emendations - "Covent-Garden Journal", "Covent-Garden" columns, "Court of Enquiry" columns of doubtful authorship; historical collation - "A Plan..."; historical collation - "Covent-Garden Journal"; corrections and revisions in the Bodleian copy of the "Covent-Garden Journal"; textual notes; word-division; press-variants and bibliographical descriptions. Index.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.12.1988 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | The Wesleyan Edition of the Works of Henry Fielding |
| Zusatzinfo | 2 halftones |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 163 x 242 mm |
| Gewicht | 922 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-818509-X / 019818509X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-818509-3 / 9780198185093 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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