2.5
Joseph Andrews and Shamela
By Henry FieldingPublisher Description
Joseph Andrews, Henry Fielding's first full-length novel, depicts the many colourful and often hilarious adventures of a comically chaste servant. After being sacked for spurning the lascivious Lady Booby, Joseph takes to the road, accompanied by his beloved Fanny Goodwill, a much-put-upon foundling girl, and Parson Adams, a man often duped and humiliated, but still a model of Christian charity. In the boisterous short tale Shamela, a brilliant parody of Richardson's Pamela, the spirited and sexually honest heroine uses coyness and mock modesty to catch herself a rich husband. Together these works anticipate Fielding's great comic epic Tom Jones, with their amiable good humour and pointed social satire.
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Gillian MacMullin
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“Joseph Andrew’s is Pamela’s less plucky and just as chaste brother (less a few sneaky kisses with his betrothed). Every woman who encounters him tries to bed him - presumably because he’s gorgeous and sings well, because he lacks on the personality department. With his betrothed and his parson friend who probably has early stage dementia in tow, he traipses across the English countryside and is shocked when hosts and innkeepers expect them to pay for their stay. They’re even more shocked when other people won’t just give them money to help. This is a good deal less nauseating than Pamela, and I liked it better than most satire because it can stand alone - even if you never forced yourself to finish Pamela. If you did force yourself through Pamela, it’s great brain bleach.
Shamela is even better for erasing Pamela out of your brain. This maid is one heck of a lot feistier and entertaining than Pamela. Definitely read it if you’re going to read Pamela!”
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