
An Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers, and Related Writings
Edited by Malvin R. Zirker
Henry Fielding(Author)
Malvin R. Zirker(Editor)
Clarendon Press
Published on 2. June 1988
Book
Hardback
462 pages
978-0-19-818516-1 (ISBN)
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.
Reviews / Votes
'remarkable volume is ... the most valuable in the series to date ... Zirker has produced something near to an ideal edition'Pat Rogers, University of South Florida, Notes and Queries '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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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
13 halftones
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
899 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-818516-1 (9780198185161)
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Professor of EnglishProfessor of English, Indiana University