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"Joseph Andrews: Hero and shortened title of The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of his friend, Mr Abraham Adams, written in Imitation of the Manner of Cervantes, a novel by Henry Fielding. Joseph Andrews, a prudent, brawny, pleasant young man, is intended to be the brother of Samuel Richardson's heroine Pamela. His widowed employer, Lady Booby, dismisses him from his position as footman for refusing her advances, and he flees London to rejoin his own true love, Fanny Goodwill. On hearing the news of his disgrace, Fanny rushes to meet him. Both are set upon by thieves but are providentially rescued by Parson Adams, and the three return to their parish, where Joseph and Fanny, after comic-opera reversals and discoveries, are married in triumph. The time of the novel is coincident with Pamela, which it parodies and transcends."- - from Benet's Readers Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition
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Cervantes, Samuel Richardson, Pamela, Parody, Fiction, Young men, Social classes, Male friendship, Clergy, Domestics, Household employees, English Humorous stories, Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761. Pamela, Social life and customs, England, Manners and customs, Social conditions, Windmills, English literature, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Clergy, fiction, England, fiction, Fiction, humorous, English fiction, Fiction, action & adventure, Friendship, fiction, Fiction, humorous, general, Fiction, family life, Young women, fiction, Fiction, family life, general, Humorous stories, english, Young men--england--fiction, Household employees--england--fiction, Pr3454 .j65 1999, 823/.5Book Details
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Shamela is a parody of S. Richardson's work: Pamela.
Joseph Andrews first published in 1742 under title: The history of adventures of Joseph Andrewsand of his friend Mr. Abraham Adams. Shamela first published in 1741 under title: An apology for the life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews.
Bibliography: p. xliii-xliv.
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