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- Title
"Willing Victims"? Disavowed Consent and Formal Deviance in Fielding's Amelia.
- Authors
Wright, Nicole M.
- Abstract
A literary criticism is provided on the 1751 English novel "Amelia," by Henry Fielding. Particular focus is given to the novel's depiction of sexual consent of the main women character Amelia, including in regard to an individual's will, or volition, and women as the victims of crimes.
- Subjects
AMELIA (Book : Fielding); FIELDING, Henry, 1707-1754; 18TH century English fiction; SEXUAL consent; WILL in literature; WOMEN'S sexual behavior; CRIMES against women; FICTION; ENGLISH fiction -- History &; criticism
- Publication
Eighteenth Century: Theory & Interpretation, 2017, Vol 58, Issue 4, p469
- ISSN
0193-5380
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/ecy.2017.0037