A Political Biography of Henry Fielding

J. A. Downie

Introduction; Chapter 1 ‘So Dissipated, Though Well Born and Well-Educated a Youth’; Chapter 2 ‘Unshap’d Monsters of a Wanton Brain!’: 1728—1731; Chapter 3 ‘Court Poet’?: 1732—1735; Chapter 4 ‘Dramatick Satire’; Chapter 5 ‘Writ in Defence of the Rights of the People’: 1739—1741; Chapter 6 The Political Significance of the Opposition. A vision; Chapter 7 ‘There are Several Boobys Who are Squires’: 1742—1745; Chapter 8 ‘A Strenuous Advocate for the Ministry’: 1745—1748; Chapter 9 ‘A Hearty Well-Wisher to the Glorious Cause of Liberty’: Tom Jones and the Forty-Five; Chapter 10 ‘This Botcher in Law and Politics’: 1749—1754; conclusion Conclusion;