A Political Biography of Henry Fielding

'a scrupulously researched account of Fielding's political writings through the filter of recent scholarly debate about them, demonstrating very clearly where he differs from those who came before, and providing both a staging-post and a start-point for further twenty-first-century scholarly discussion of Fielding's political views.' Eighteenth-Century Life 'In its detailed explications of the interactions between [differing] faces of Fielding's politics, Mr Downie's account is extremely helpful and clarifying, perhaps the most through reading of the evidence to date-and especially notable for reading the silences too. It will likely remain the definitive account.' The Scriblerian