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Riotous, captivating and groundbreaking, Henry Fielding's Joseph Andrews: THE ANNALS of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and His Good friend Mr. Abraham Adams, published in 1742, was one of the first English novels. Fielding was melding and parodying the two major forces battling for control of the fiction market at the time - the mock heroic, neoclassical custom as practiced by Pope and Swift and the popular and populist fiction of the new novelists such as Defoe and Richardson. Richardson's Pamela had just considered Britain by storm, and following on the success of Fielding's parody of the book, Shamela, the storyline of Joseph Andrews practices Pamela's brother in his quest as footman to the rather dippy Parson Adams. In style and form, it imitates Cervantes' Don Quixote, with the servant and expert undertaking their major quest together, but the sexual ventures of the young Joseph Andrews and his sorely tested chastity supply the real meat of the book's storyline. Referred to by Fielding as 'a comic-romance', Joseph Andrews is a bawdy and merry e book, but additionally it is wrought through with Fielding's devotion to the Greek and Roman classics and along with his sociable conscience, which shines through in its fresh approach to the stifling moral hypocrisies of your day.
