Henry Fielding (1707-1754): novelist, playwright, journalist, magistrate : a double anniversary tribute

Part I: Plays and novels: Fielding from stage to page / Thomas Lockwood

"The uncreating word": Silence and unspoken thought in Fielding's drama / Joseph Roach

Fielding's Machiavellian moment / Thomas Keymer

Avatars of Alexander: Jonathan Wild and the tyrant thug, from Voltaire to Brecht / Claude Rawson

Amelia, sex and Fielding's woman question / Simon Dickie

Part II: Relationships and collaborations: Henry and Sarah Fielding: A literary relationship / Linda Bree

Fielding, Hogarth, and evil: cruelty / Ronald Paulson

"O, Hogarth, had I thy pencil": Delineations of an alleged friendship

Frederic Ogee

Part III: Law, politics and Ideas: Poacher and gamekeeper: Fielding, the law, and the novels / Pat Rogers

Fielding, politics, and "Men of genius" / Bertrand A. Goldgar

Was Fielding a prefeminist? / Guyonne Leduc

Part IV: Afterlife: Jacobites and Jacobins: Fielding's legacy in the later eighteenth-century London theater / Angela Smallwood

Fielding's legacy in fiction / Robert Alter.