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History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of His Friend
Mr. Abraham Adams, novel by Henry Fielding, published in 1742.
It was written as a reaction against Samuel Richardson’s novel
Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (1740). Fielding portrayed Joseph
Andrews as the brother of Pamela Andrews, the heroine of
Richardson’s novel. Described on the title page as “Written in
Imitation of the Manner of Cervantes, author of Don Quixote,”
Joseph Andrews begins as a burlesque of Pamela, but the parodic
intention of the novel soon becomes secondary, and it develops
into a masterpiece of sustained irony and social criticism. At
its centre is Parson Adams, one of the great comic figures of
literature. Joseph and the parson have a series of adventures,
in all of which they manage to expose the hypocrisy and
affectation of others through their own innocence and
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