: Fielding critiques the vanity and hypocrisy of the upper classes, contrasting their "false kindness" with the genuine Christian charity of the lower-status characters. Plot Summary
: The novel begins by flipping the script of Samuel Richardson's Pamela . While Pamela Andrews resists her master's advances, Fielding’s hero, her brother Joseph, resists the sexual advances of his mistress, Lady Booby, to maintain his own "virtue". Joseph Andrews
: Fielding defines this unique genre in his preface, combining the structural elements of an epic—such as high diction and heroic journeys—with comic characters and everyday prose. : Fielding critiques the vanity and hypocrisy of