An Enquiry Into The Causes Of The Late Increase Of Robbers And Related Writings
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An Enquiry Into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers and Related Writings
Author: Henry Fielding
language: en
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Release Date: 1988
Critical unmodernized texts of Fielding's legal and social pamphlets from 1749 to 1753.
An Enquiry Into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers and Related Writings
Author: Henry Fielding
language: en
Publisher: Wesleyan Edition of the Works
Release Date: 1988
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.
A Political Biography of Henry Fielding
Existing accounts of Fielding's political ideas are insufficiently aware of the structure of politics in the first half of the eighteenth century, and of the ways in which Whig political ideology developed following the Revolution of 1688. This political biography explains and illustrates what 'being a Whig' meant to Fielding.