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A Journey from This World to the Next and the Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon
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A Journey from This World to the Next and the Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon Paperback - 1997

by Henry Fielding; Ian A. Bell (Editor); Andrew Varney (Editor)


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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.

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This unique double edition brings together Henry Fielding's two voyage narratives. A Journey from this World to the Next (1743) and The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon (1755) belong, in different ways, to the travel-writing tradition, and show Fielding standing in ironic relation to the genre. The Journey is a powerful yet playful narrative, in which Fielding anatomizes contemporary follies with his customary vigour. Using the form of a journey through the underworld, he satirizes all claims to historical and political greatness. The Journal, published posthumously, recounts Fielding's last adventure. Ruined in health by overwork and a punishing lifestyle, he set sail for Lisbon in 1754 with the desperate hope of recuperating in a better climate. Though incapacitated and enduring the squalor and frustrations of a long voyage, Fielding wrote with vitality and wit throughout the journey. Vividly recording the bizarre characters he met, detailing comic and moving incidents, commenting on everything around him, his words transmit the keenness of his life rather than the imminence of his death. The introductions and notes to these lesser-known but fascinating texts illuminate their place in Fielding's work and eighteenth-century literature as a whole.

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  • Title A Journey from This World to the Next and the Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon
  • Author Henry Fielding; Ian A. Bell (Editor); Andrew Varney (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First edition th
  • Pages 280
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford
  • Date 1997-04
  • ISBN 9780192823342 / 0192823345
  • Weight 0.33 lbs (0.15 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.4 x 4.62 x 0.53 in (18.80 x 11.73 x 1.35 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Occult fiction, Supernatural - Fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96032012
  • Dewey Decimal Code 823.5
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