Political Biography of Henry Fielding

Taylor & Francis

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. > 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. > Introduction; Chapter 1 \u2018So Dissipated, Though Well Born and Well-Educated a Youth\u2019; Chapter 2 \u2018Unshap\u2019d Monsters of a Wanton Brain!\u2019: 1728\u20141731; Chapter 3 \u2018Court Poet\u2019?: 1732\u20141735; Chapter 4 \u2018Dramatick Satire\u2019; Chapter 5 \u2018Writ in Defence of the Rights of the People\u20;