CliffsNotes on Fielding's Joseph Andrews

By Michael B Mavor

Subjects: European, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM, History of the adventures of Joseph Andrews (Fielding, Henry), Literature, history and criticism

Description: Ordinarily a moralist writer, in this novel Fielding creates a comedy of romance, by superimposing the positive act of the imagination on the raw material of the real world. It is ultimately both instructive and entertaining. Here Fielding parodies his own previous novels in this story of a young man resisting the many attempts to seduce him.