Amelia

ISBN-13: 9781551113456 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 550 str.

Henry Fielding

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Henry Fielding's powerful final novel is now available in an expertly edited and contextualized Broadview edition. This title includes appendices: From Alexander Pope, 'Essay on Man'; Samuel Johnson - The Rambler, number 4; From Covent-Garden Journal; and, 'The History of Mrs Bilson', from Sarah Fielding, The Countess of Dellwyn. 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 use of fragmented narrative. Compelling and personal, this novel shows a different side of Fielding's prodigious talent. The introduction to this edition, written by a prominent Fielding scholar, discusses the novel's formal and thematic departures, its place in Fielding's career, and its troubled reception.

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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