Joseph Andrews (Annotated)

Joseph Andrews is Henry Fielding's exuberant comic novel of virtue tested on the open road. Beginning as a parody of Samuel Richardson's Pamela, it quickly becomes a broader "comic epic in prose," following the chaste footman Joseph, his beloved Fanny Goodwill, and the benevolent Parson Adams through inns, highways, courts, and households. Its mock-heroic style, episodic structure, classical allus...