Amelia (Broadview Editions) - Softcover

Fielding, Henry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1551113457 ISBN 13: 9781551113456

Publisher: Broadview Press, 2010

Synopsis

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.

About this title

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.

From the Back Cover

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Broadview Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1551113457
• ISBN 13: 9781551113456
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 550
• Editor: Bree Linda