Joseph Andrews / Shamela
Author: Henry Fielding
Shamela is a brilliant parody of Samuel Richardson’s PAMELA, in which a virtuous servant girl long resists her master’s advances and is eventually ‘rewarded’ with marriage. Fielding’s far more spirited and sexually honest heroine, by contrast, merely uses coyness and mock modesty as techniques to catch a rich husband. Joseph Andrews, Fielding’s first full-length novel, can….Read More
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