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The Grub Street Journal was perhaps the most widely-read weekly
journal in England of its period. The first four years are
reprinted here, representing the journal in its prime in terms of
quality and popularity. This edition is enhanced with a general
introduction and comprehensive annotation.
The Grub Street Journal was perhaps the most widely-read weekly
journal in England of its period. The first four years are
reprinted here, representing the journal in its prime in terms of
quality and popularity. This edition is enhanced with a general
introduction and comprehensive annotation.
The Grub Street Journal was perhaps the most widely-read weekly
journal in England of its period. The first four years are
reprinted here, representing the journal in its prime in terms of
quality and popularity. This edition is enhanced with a general
introduction and comprehensive annotation.
The Grub Street Journal was perhaps the most widely-read weekly
journal in England of its period. The first four years are
reprinted here, representing the journal in its prime in terms of
quality and popularity. This edition is enhanced with a general
introduction and comprehensive annotation.
The Grub Street Journal was perhaps the most widely-read weekly
journal in England of its period. The first four years are
reprinted here, representing the journal in its prime in terms of
quality and popularity. This edition is enhanced with a general
introduction and comprehensive annotation.
The years 1711 to 1714 saw some of Swift's most brilliant and
powerful political pamphleteering. Writing for the Tory government,
he did more to settle the fate of parties and the nation than any
literary figure, before or since. This volume collects together
major defences of the government's position, including The Conduct
of the Allies and The Publick Spirit of the Whigs, vigorous attacks
on his opponents, short satirical broadsides, and brief
contributions to periodicals. It also includes some little known
work not present in previous editions of Swift. This is the first
fully annotated edition of these works. A comprehensive
introduction, drawing on contemporary literary and historical
scholarship, is supported by detailed explanatory notes on each
text. It is also the first edition to identify and collate all
relevant contemporary editions and provide a full account of the
textual history of each work.
Volume Three of Henry Fielding's Miscellanies, first published as a
three-volume set in 1743, consists in its entirety of a major work
of fiction, The history of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild
the Great. Jonathan Wild takes its title from the `thief-taker' and
gang-leader of that name who was hanged in 1725, but in Fielding's
hands, the history of Wild is transformed into a mock-hostorical
work of sustained irony aimed at all who would be `great men'. The
general introduction to this edition sets the novel against its
historical and biographical background and argues against the view,
common since the mid-nineteenth century, that it is a personal
satire directed at the figure of Sir Robert Walpole. In both the
general and the textual introductions, the editors also offer a
fresh view on questions about the date and history of the work's
composition. Full explanatory notes and commentary place Fielding's
allusions and details in their contemporary context. As in previous
volumes of the Weslyan Edition, this provides critical,
unmodernized text, based on the Greg-Bowers `Rationale of
Copy-text'. The version is that of the first edition, with an
appendix giving all variants in wording and presentation in the
1754 revision. In his introduction the textual editor lays out the
rationale for his choice of version. This volume also includes, for
the first time in modern edition, Fielding's list of subscribers to
the Miscellanies, along with detailed biographical notes and an
analysis of the subscription list by the textual editor.
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