Amelia

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…

…and England’s political elite, and Amelia (1751) probes with somber precision images of captivity and situations of taxing moral paradox.