Joseph Andrews - Henry Fielding

• Joseph Andrews (1742) - "Fan fiction"
• A response to Pamela by Samuel Richardson (the book brought his name into existence)
• In 1737 Fielding's career as a playwright comes to an end. The Licensing Act shuts down the Theater that was critical of Walpole
• Fielding thinks Pamela is a gold-digging, weasal
• Joseph Andrews is the brother of Pamela
• Pamela helped put women back on the pedestal
• Tragedy order-->disorder
• Comedy disorder-->order
• Laughter≠delight
• (scorn)
• (unseemly)
• Fieldings says that the comic springs from
• The Ridiculous
• Affection (acting like you're something you're not) (Physical irony)
• inconsistency is also a possibility
• Vanity (get approval)
• Hypocrisy (avoid censure)
• Is Adams ridiculous? Not by Fielding's standards
• Fielding puts Adams in juxtaposition of lots of English types. Series of portraits 
• Page 33 - description has echoes of Milton's description of Adam and Eve
• Adams  - the light by which all the others are judged.
• General satire on vice and folly
• Disorder
• Joseph has to get back to Fanny
• From London to Somersetshire
• Adams is porr
• Lady Booby causes disorder
• Identities (Fanny and Joseph)
• Other characters - except the peddler
• Class
• At the beginning the heroes are subject to a cruel world
• By the end, the good people have won out and are not subject to others
• Is there zero character development? Is there an internal engine?
• It is episodic
• Fielding is saying that human traits are constant and universal
• Pope and Fielding would agree that you can't get too far from nature.
• "Nature to advantage dressed"
• Physical reality (Things function like real people)
• Human reality (human nature) (lust/sex, love, power, money/self interest, ethical, practical, Christian, security)
• Thematic truths (showing real truths as opposed to Pamela)
• Themes
• What is the nature of human nature?
• Repercussions of mis-placed power