{"product_id":"2026200014715-secondhand-joseph-andrews-and-shamela","title":"Joseph Andrews And Shamela","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: First UK ed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew authors in the English literary tradition wielded satire with the precision and comic genius of Henry Fielding, and Joseph Andrews and Shamela presents two of his most celebrated works in a single authoritative volume. Shamela (1741) is a razor-sharp parody of Samuel Richardson's enormously popular Pamela, skewering its sanctimonious heroine and the cult of sentimental virtue with gleeful irreverence, while Joseph Andrews (1742) begins as a continuation of that same joke before blossoming into a fully realized comic epic — a picaresque adventure following the virtuous footman Joseph Andrews and his philosophical companion, Parson Adams, along the open roads of 18th-century England.\n\nEdited with an introduction and notes by Martin C. Battestin of the University of Virginia, this scholarly edition situates Fielding's genius within the broader tradition of the English novel, illuminating his debt to Cervantes and his own foundational contribution to the form. Fielding's prose is boisterous, humane, and rich with irony — a corrective to sentimentality that remains startlingly modern in its scepticism of pretension and hypocrisy. For readers curious about where the English novel truly found its comic soul, this volume offers an irresistible answer.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49210281853147,"sku":"2026200014715-SECONDHAND","price":60.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/260f2fb8-52e0-475c-a387-b3d2f657e45d.png?v=1788268757","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200014715-secondhand-joseph-andrews-and-shamela","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}