FOR FURTHER READING

          This book includes information about the psychological nature of the characters in many Fielding's works, including    Joseph Andrews. It would give the reader a more thorough understanding of the characters actions.

~Treadwell, Ruml. "Henry Fielding and Parson Adams: Whig writer and Tory priest." Journal of English and Germanic Philology 97.2(1998): 205-225.

          This article examines how Henry Fielding used his fiction to battle out the tensions between his political life and the "Tory Humanism" that was its opposition.  Fielding's use of Parson Adams as a clergy member and yet politically active character is fully explored.

~Johnson, Maurice. Fielding's Art of Fiction. London: Oxford University Press, 1961. 47-82.

          This collection of essays expands on ideas pertaining to the use of parody and comedy in Joseph Andrews. The book also focuses on the biblical references throughout the novel, particularly the title character and Parson Adams.

~Fuger, Wilhelm. "Limits of the Narrator's Knowledge in Fielding's "Joseph Andrews": A Contribution to a Theory of Negated Knowledge in Fiction." Style 38.3(2004): 278-289.

          A reader will better understand the character of the narrator in "Joseph Andrews" and this character's ability to affect how the reader comprehends the story.  Fuger explains how the narrator's complete knowledge of events in a novel are misleading to a reader, rather than helpful.

~Frank, Judith. The Comic Novel and the Poor: Fielding's preface to "Joseph Andrews." Eighteenth-Century Studies. 27.2 (Winter 93/94): 217-245.

          Frank's article discusses the ethics of representing the poor within literary works.  She also examines the social process of excluding the poor from forms of entertainment.  This article will give the reader a better perspective on the treatment of the lower classes in the eighteenth century and help them to better understand the novel and its main characters.

~Campbell, Jill. "Fielding's Style." ELH 72.2(407): 278-289.

          This article will allow a reader to better understand the style used by Henry Fielding.  In turn, this will aid in the comprehension of one of his novels.

~Toise, David W. "'A more culpable passion': Pamela, Joseph Andrews, and the history of desire." Clio 25.4(1996): 393.

          Toise compares Samuel Richardson's "Pamela" and Henry Fielding's parody of it, "Joseph Andrews," and holds a strong focus on desire and knowledge.  He also examines how shifts in desire and knowledge have influenced the evolution of narrative forms.

~Williams, Jeffery. "The narrative circle: the interpolated tales in Joseph Andrews." Studies in the Novel 30.4(1998): 473-488.

          Williams examines Fielding's interjection of side stories within the tale of Joseph Andrews.  He goes against the normal scholarly thought that interpolated tales disrupt the flow of the novel and discerns that these stories are valid in their own right and "integral to the overall narrative."