Product Description: This comprehensive new study reads both major and lesser-known texts of the period 1700-1750 in their social, cultural, historical, and intellectual contexts. Each chapter introduces and discusses a topic, such as travel, science, money, and love, and reads a selection of texts in its light...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This unique double edition brings together Henry Fielding's two voyage narratives. The Journey (1743) is a powerful satire on contemporary follies in the form of a journey through the underworld. The Journal, published posthumously in 1755, recounts Fielding's last adventure when, seriously ill, he set sail for Lisbon hoping to recover there...read more