Q: Fielding's Joseph Andrews is a burlesque based on:
a) The Hind and the Panther
b) Horace Walpole
c) Richardson's Pamela
d) Pindaric Odes
Correct answer: c) Richardson's Pamela
Fielding's Joseph Andrews
The adventures of Joseph Andrews (1742) was his first novel. His novel Burlesque Pamela was written as a reaction to Samuel Richardson's novel Pamela or Virtue rewarded (1740). Fielding portrayed Joseph Andrews as the brother of Pamela Andrew the heroine of Richardson's novel. Joseph Andrews begins as a burlesque of Pamela, but the parodic intention of the novel soon becomes secondary and it develops into a masterpiece of sustained irony and social criticism.
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