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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... scarce any ) faintness . Those of my physical friends , on whose judgment I chiefly depended , seemed to think my only chance of life consisted in having the whole summer before me ; in which I might hope to gather sufficient strength ...
... scarce any ) faintness . Those of my physical friends , on whose judgment I chiefly depended , seemed to think my only chance of life consisted in having the whole summer before me ; in which I might hope to gather sufficient strength ...
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... scarce opened my lips to a single person . This circumstance of being shut up within the circumference of a few yards , with a score of human creatures , with not one of whom it was possible to converse , was perhaps so rare , as scarce ...
... scarce opened my lips to a single person . This circumstance of being shut up within the circumference of a few yards , with a score of human creatures , with not one of whom it was possible to converse , was perhaps so rare , as scarce ...
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... scarce have mentioned the catching this shark , though so exactly conformable to the rules and practice of voyage - writing , had it not been for a strange circumstance that attended it . This was the recovery of the stolen beef out of ...
... scarce have mentioned the catching this shark , though so exactly conformable to the rules and practice of voyage - writing , had it not been for a strange circumstance that attended it . This was the recovery of the stolen beef out of ...
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