Amelia

by Henry Fielding

Overview

Amelia by Henry Fielding is a gripping novel that follows the trials of Amelia Booth, a virtuous woman facing relentless misfortune. Through a vivid portrayal of 18th-century society, Fielding explores themes of justice, loyalty, and resilience in this enduring tale of love and perseverance..

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798330214112
Publisher:	Natal Publishing, LLC
Publication date:	06/04/2024
Pages:	418
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.93(d)

About the Author

Linda Bree is Editorial Director, Arts and Literature at the Cambridge University Press. She has published widely on eighteenth-century literature and is the editor of the Broadview Edition of Jane Austen’s Persuasion.

Table of 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)

1. The Covent-Garden Journal, No. 7 (25 January 1752)
2. The Covent-Garden Journal, No. 8 (28 January 1752)

Appendix D: From Sarah Fielding, The History of the Countess of Dellwyn (1759)

Selected Bibliography

Editorial Reviews

Henry Fielding called Amelia his ‘favourite Child’ but the readers who loved Tom Jones, on the lookout for more jokes from this author, found the child unfunny and refused to take her in. Linda Bree’s new edition of the novel creates an important opening for fresh appraisal of this innovative and challenging work. It is generously and lucidly annotated, with a discriminating introduction taking balanced account both of the historical context and most recent critical discourse. A superb addition to our resources for the study of the early modern novel as well as of Fielding.” — Thomas Lockwood, University of Washington

“Amelia, Fielding’s last and in some ways greatest novel, gives us marriage as epic adventure, fraught with perils and blessed with pleasures, and Linda Bree thankfully gives us a new and authoritative edition. The text is well edited and annotated, Bree’s introduction superb, and the maps, glossary, and appendices all very useful.” — Adam Potkay, William R. Kenan Professor of Humanities, The College of William & Mary

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