An Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers, and Related Writings
Henry Fielding
Edited by Malvin R. Zirker
Price: £111.00 (Hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-818516-1
Publication date: 2 June 1988
Clarendon Press
462 pages, 13 halftones, 229x150 mm
Series: The Wesleyan Edition of the Works of Henry Fielding
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| - ''remarkable volume is ... the most valuable in the series to date ... Zirker has produced something near to an ideal edition'
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- ''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' -
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| Description | | 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.
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Readership: Students of the work of Henry Fielding; those interested in literature, law, and society of the mid-18th century.
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Henry Fielding
Edited by Malvin R. Zirker, Professor of English, Indiana University
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