ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Joseph Andrews, in full The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of His Friend Mr. Abraham Adams, novel by Henry Fielding, published in 1742. It was written as a reaction against Samuel Richardson’s novel Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (1740).

Detailed explanation-2: -Joseph Andrews, in full The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of His Friend Mr. Abraham Adams, novel by Henry Fielding, published in 1742. It was written as a reaction against Samuel Richardson’s novel Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (1740).

Detailed explanation-3: -His greatest work is The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1749), a meticulous comic novel with elements of the picaresque and the Bildungsroman, telling a convoluted, hilarious tale of how a foundling came into a fortune.

Detailed explanation-4: -Sir Walter Scott called Henry Fielding the “father of the English novel, ” and the phrase still indicates Fielding’s place in the history of literature.

Detailed explanation-5: -The title suggests that Joseph Andrews is the hero of the novel (the original title is The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and his Friend, Mr. Abraham Adams). Is he? He is certainly what we would today call the romantic lead.