The Journal of a Voyage to LisbonPenguin Books, 1996 - 142 páginas When Fielding was winched aboard the Queen of Portugal bound for Lisbon in June 1754 he had small hope of surviving even the milder Portuguese winter. The author of Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones was 'dying from a complication of disorders' and the gravity of his illness sparks the unflinching humour and pathos of the Journal. In it Fielding scrutinizes his body's decay and the corruption of English society, undercutting with irony his own high claims for his former conduct as a London magistrate. In it, too, he makes merry with xenophobia and the rapturous excesses of contemporary travel writing, while casting himself in the role of a post-heroic Odysseus or Aeneas, a role tinged with farce as he charts the tortuous voyage of the Queen of Portugal. Tom Keymer provides an illuminating introduction to this volume, which at last makes popularly available a scholarly edition of the Journal. Completed some weeks before Fielding's death on 8 October 1754, the work is at once comic, valedictory and intensely poignant, and it is indeed 'his art's great sunset'. |
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Henry Fielding Tom Keymer, Thomas Keymer. faithfully related what had happened on board our ship ; we say faithfully , tho ' from what happened it may be suspected that Tom chose to add , perhaps , only five or six immaterial ...
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... happened to them , waste their time and paper with recording things and facts of so common a kind , that they challenge no other right of being remembered , than as they had the honour of having happened to the author , to whom nothing ...
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... happened to stand empty within my reach . With these menaces he retired at last , but not without muttering some ... happened on board our ship ; we say faithfully , tho ' from what happened it may be suspected that Tom chose to add ...
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