Charles Bechtel's Reviews > Amelia

I believe this to be the best of Fielding's works, although scholars disagree with me almost to a person. I was able, with one Fielding scholar, able to show why the maturity, understanding, depth of feeling and social consciousness in its pages raised it to the height of the uthor's works. And changing that one person's informed impression assured me that it could be done with others. Just not by me. It hasn't the humor of Tom Jones or Joseph Andres, but then it didn't need to be. If one could read this without an expectation that it is the third in a triad of riotous novels by Feilding, one might see what I think it is.