Full Description
With its combination of satire and sentiment, its focus on the seedy side of London life, and its unexpected shifts in tone, Amelia has intrigued and disturbed readers since its first publication. Eagerly awaited by Henry Fielding's eighteenth-century readers of Tom Jones, the novel perplexed many of them. Amelia counters the traditional courtship plot of eighteenth-century novels with its convincing portrayal of a marriage between an errant husband and his wife, and is ahead of its time in its depiction of the alienation of modern city life.
Appendices include contemporary criticism and related works by Alexander Pope and Sarah Fielding.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Henry Fielding: A brief Chronology
A Note on Money
A Note on the Text
Glossary
Amelia
Appendix A: From Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man: Epistle II (1733-34)
Appendix B: Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, No. 4 (Saturday, 31 March 1750)
Appendix C: From The Covent-Garden Journal (January 1752)
The Covent-Garden Journal, No. 7 (25 January 1752)
The Covent-Garden Journal, No. 8 (28 January 1752)
Appendix D: From Sarah Fielding, The History of the Countess of Dellwyn (1759)
Selected Bibliography
