Questions for discussion:
In what ways could Joseph Andrews be considered a parody of Richardson’s Pamela?
Why do you think Fielding parodied Pamela?
What are the picaresque elements in the novel?
What middle class values are satirised in the novel?
What are the similarities between Lady Booby and Mrs Slipslop?
In what ways is Parson Adams the anti-thesis of Lady Booby and Mrs Slipslop?
What are the comic elements in the novel?
How are the urban and rural ways of life represented in the novel?
Please read “Fielding’s Joseph Andrews satirizes English society” at http://eds.a.ebscohost.com/eds/detail/detail?vid=4&sid=1f0ec3e5-4fe7- 488c924d5e67dbd96150%40sessionmgr4008&bdata=Jmxhbmc9dHImc2l0ZT 1lZHMtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=ers&AN=89158605 (accessible via Ankara University E-Library)