Introduction Abbreviations Chronology Residences Family and Household Others in Life Works by Fielding Works Probably by Fielding Letters Manuscripts Themes and Topics Characters in the Plays and Prose Fiction Bibliography Index
MARTIN C. BATTESTIN is William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Virginia. He is coeditor of the Wesleyan Edition of the Works of Henry Fielding and the author of several books on eighteenth-century literature. His numerous articles have appeared in such journals as Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Studies in Bibliography, Studies in Philology, Eighteenth-Century Studies, ELH, PMLA, and Philological Quarterly.
"The work Professor Battestin has produced, A Henry Fielding
Companion, is a remarkable achievement. It is full of accurate
information and important insights presented in a very clear and
attractive style. A Henry Fielding Companion will be of great
benefit to both the eighteenth-century specialist and the general
reader."-Frederick G. Ribble Author of Fieldings Library: An
Annotated Catalogue
"Fielding studies have flourished in the past forty years in large
part because its examplars, Messrs. Battestin and Paulson, have set
a high standard for work that articulates relationships: sermons
and satire, social history and literary tradition, life and
works....[o]ffers copious biographical and textual information; its
two pages (219-220) on Fielding's "manuscripts" are remarkable for
the generosity with which they condense a lifetime's pursuit of
these documents. But the Companion also includes entries on Dryden,
Rochester, Pope, Swift, and the Scriblerus Club that reveal
Mr.Battestin's mastery of the great theme of Mr.Paulson's early
career, the relationship between "satire and the novel.""-The
Scriblerian
?Battestin has prepared a delightful vade mecum for academic
readers, undergraduates through faculty, who are studying Fielding
and his world....Highly recommended.?-Choice
?Fielding studies have flourished in the past forty years in large
part because its examplars, Messrs. Battestin and Paulson, have set
a high standard for work that articulates relationships: sermons
and satire, social history and literary tradition, life and
works....[o]ffers copious biographical and textual information; its
two pages (219-220) on Fielding's "manuscripts" are remarkable for
the generosity with which they condense a lifetime's pursuit of
these documents. But the Companion also includes entries on Dryden,
Rochester, Pope, Swift, and the Scriblerus Club that reveal
Mr.Battestin's mastery of the great theme of Mr.Paulson's early
career, the relationship between "satire and the novel."?-The
Scriblerian
?The ease of reference from this list--names cited under their
works--allows a user efficiently to group ideas and character
traits better to understand the pattern in the carpet of Fielding's
works....The light that Professor Battestin casts shows fully the
plenitude, variety, and organicism in Fielding's life and
literature. Rich in local detail, A Fielding Companion makes us
naturalized citizens of Fielding's world and time. Opening that
work to cultivate our sympathetic understanding, Martin Battestin
performs the ultimate act of liberal learning through significant
scholarship.?-The East-Central Intelligencer
?The organizations, frequent cross-referencing, table of contents,
and index provide easy access to a complete range of the life and
works of Henry Fielding.?-ARBA
"Battestin has prepared a delightful vade mecum for academic
readers, undergraduates through faculty, who are studying Fielding
and his world....Highly recommended."-Choice
"The ease of reference from this list--names cited under their
works--allows a user efficiently to group ideas and character
traits better to understand the pattern in the carpet of Fielding's
works....The light that Professor Battestin casts shows fully the
plenitude, variety, and organicism in Fielding's life and
literature. Rich in local detail, A Fielding Companion makes us
naturalized citizens of Fielding's world and time. Opening that
work to cultivate our sympathetic understanding, Martin Battestin
performs the ultimate act of liberal learning through significant
scholarship."-The East-Central Intelligencer
"The organizations, frequent cross-referencing, table of contents,
and index provide easy access to a complete range of the life and
works of Henry Fielding."-ARBA
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