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Amelia completes for the reader the essential humanity of Fielding. After the romantic satire of Joseph Andrews, the interpretation of life (mostly in ironical terms) of Tom Jones, the logic of Jonathan Wild, there is a need to soften the outline. As Professor Humphreys says in his new Introduction to this work: 'Amelia is the culmination of Fielding's advocacy of "Virtue and Religion" and one of its themes is to prove that these are real things, not simulacra. Like Johnson, Fielding asserts the good pattern of society and the reasonable charity of Christian ethics, habitually ignored by "the world".'
The reading of Amelia is essential to a full understanding of Fielding. Although the book may divide opinions, the heroine usually unites them. As the late Sir Walter Raleigh, in his book The English Novel, said:' It may be doubted whether a figure so beautiful and at the same time so perfectly lifelike as Amelia has ever been drawn in the whole range... Tovább

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Amelia completes for the reader the essential humanity of Fielding. After the romantic satire of Joseph Andrews, the interpretation of life (mostly in ironical terms) of Tom Jones, the logic of Jonathan Wild, there is a need to soften the outline. As Professor Humphreys says in his new Introduction to this work: 'Amelia is the culmination of Fielding's advocacy of "Virtue and Religion" and one of its themes is to prove that these are real things, not simulacra. Like Johnson, Fielding asserts the good pattern of society and the reasonable charity of Christian ethics, habitually ignored by "the world".'
The reading of Amelia is essential to a full understanding of Fielding. Although the book may divide opinions, the heroine usually unites them. As the late Sir Walter Raleigh, in his book The English Novel, said:' It may be doubted whether a figure so beautiful and at the same time so perfectly lifelike as Amelia has ever been drawn in the whole range of English prose fiction.' Fielding drew his major figures from living people and Amelia is a likeness of Fielding's first wife, who went through some eight years of trouble with him, and died in 1743. In a sense Fielding created for her this imperishable memorial, for Amelia (married to
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the fickle, good-humouredj mercurial Captain Booth) is the finest feminine portrait in his great gallery.
Fielding is well represented in Everyman's Library. Joseph Andrews (No. 467), writh the immortal Parson Adams, a Falstaffian figure; Tom Jones (Nos. 355-6), with its scamp of a hero and beautiful heroine, Sophia; Jonathan Wild, with its delicious satire on false hero-worship, are all available, and with the last named is coupled the Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon (No. 877), narrating the incidents of Fielding's last voyage.
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