...interest directs them to a pursuit of her." und in der Widmung der „Amelia" heißt es: „This book is sincerely designed to promote the cause of virtue,...the most glaring evils, as well public as private." Die moralische Wirkung erreicht der Dichter durch Vor- Die Verweil führung von Beispielen von Tugend...

...most natural way possible, came Amelia, again an innovation, which, as Fielding declared, was intended "to expose some of the most glaring evils, as well public as private, which at present infest this country." In the words of Professor Cross, its author, viewing "the human wreckage,...

...start: in the dedication to Ralph Allen, Fielding baldly announces the purpose of his fiction will be "to promote the Cause of Virtue, and to expose some...most glaring Evils, as well public as private, which at present infest the Country." The metaphor of exposure is significant. For Fielding indeed seems...

...recommend Goodness and Innocence hath been my sincere Endeavour in this History." 76 Likewise, Amelia is "sincerely designed to promote the Cause of Virtue"...the most glaring Evils, as well public as private," 77 while avoiding harmful personal satire. To a certain degree, the rhetoric of the dedicatory letter,...

...Johnsonians, they at least had the support of Fielding's dedication to Ralph Allen: the book, he said, "is sincerely designed to promote the Cause of Virtue,...most glaring Evils, as well public as private, which at present infest the Country".98 But the most consoling parts of the message had to be made up by...

...horses in general. Amelia: The Seven Deadly Sins In his dedication to Amelia, Fielding says his aim is "to expose some of the most glaring Evils, as well public as private, which at present infest the Country" (1.3), and Amelia is, as opposed to the picaresque or soteriological...