Amelia
novel by Fielding
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discussed in biography
- In Henry Fielding: Last years. of Henry Fielding
Two years later Amelia was published. Being a much more sombre work, it has always been less popular than Tom Jones and Joseph Andrews. Fielding’s mind must have been darkened by his experiences as a magistrate, as it certainly had been by his wife’s death, and Amelia is…
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place in English literature
- In English literature: Fielding
…and England’s political elite, and Amelia (1751) probes with somber precision images of captivity and situations of taxing moral paradox.
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