JOSEPH ANDREWS & SHAMELA PB – HENRY FIELDING-JUDITH HAWLEY-JUDITH HAWLEY-JUDITH HAWLEY

"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 also be seen as a response to Richardson, as the lascivious Lady Booby sets out to seduce her comically chaste servant Joseph, (himself in love with the much-put-upon Fanny Goodwill). As in Tom Jones, Fielding takes a huge cast of characters out on the road and exposes them to many colourful and often hilarious adventures."