Joseph Andrews
Theme
Affectations -- Vanity and Hypocrisy (Preface)
Theme
Good-natured, charity, good works (versus faith)
Names
Significance of character names -- types/individuals (Booby, Tow-wouse, Slipslop, Betty, Postillion, Joseph)
Narrative Structure
Real author, Implied author, Narrator
Reader, Implied reader, Narrative reader
Chapter Titles (II.i, III.i)
Narrative intrusion -- guide the reader
Genre
epic, comic poem in prose (Preface, Intro.-xi)
picaresque -- novel of the road-episodic
Adams as Don Quixote figure
Realism and the Novel
Fielding -- Neoclassical Realism
Relationship between life and art
Exposes characters' false assessment of themselves
History
Enclosure Acts
World of Inns/Country Estate
Traits
Other Characters
Types?
Traits
Joseph/Adams
Individuals?