Amelia (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Henry Fielding
- First Published: 1751
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: c. 1733
- Genres: Long fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: Tricks, Prisoners, Prisons, Gambling, Marriage, Mistaken or secret identity, England or English people, Eighteenth century, Adultery, Moral conditions, Soldiers
- Locales: London, England, Wiltshire, England, Gibraltar
Places Discussed
*Newgate Prison. Notorious London prison in which the narrative begins after Captain William Booth is arrested for beating a watchman when he is, in fact, saving a stranger from ruffians. The prison then becomes the place in which the seeds of both his ruin and final deliverance are sown; there William commits adultery but also makes the acquaintance of the man whose testimony in court at the end of the novel saves Booth’s wife from being defrauded of her fortune. Fielding’s detailed characterization of the prison exposes the inhuman treatment the poor...
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Henry Fielding (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Henry Fielding (Censorship)Henry Fielding (Long Fiction)Henry Fielding (Dictionary of World Biography)Henry Fielding (Drama)
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