Baker, Sheridan. “Fielding and the Irony of Form.” Eighteenth-Century Studies
2.2 (1968): 138-154.

This article argues the differences between the structural design of Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones. It addresses the critical differences in the ways in which each novel’s structure “emphasizes” and “insinuates” differently.

Battestin, Martin., and Battestin, Ruthe.  Henry Fielding, A Life.  London:  Routledge, 1989.

This book contains interesting pictures of Fielding as a boy and a man. It also gives an account of how he grew up and how the politics in the period influenced his writing.

Cruise, James. “Fielding, Authority, and the New Commercialism in Joseph Andrews” ELH 54.2 (1987): 253-276.

This article speculates into possible motivations behind Fielding’s Joseph Andrews have some relation to essays written by Richard Steele about 22 years before the publication of the novel.

Dobson, Austin.  Fielding.  New York:  Harper & Brothers, 1883.

This book has insightful descriptions of the main characters in Fielding’s novels; they are not only from Joseph Andrews, but from his other works as well.

Dudden, Homes F.  Henry Fielding, His Life, Works, and Times.  Hamden: Archon Books, 1966.

The focus of this book is how Joseph Andrews relates to other books in the 18^th century. It also relates the novel to significant events in the 18^th century; it is insightfully informative of the historical contexts of Fielding’s works.

Gay, Peter.  Age of Enlightenment.  New York: Time-Life Books, 1966.

This book works mostly as an illustrated documentary of the time period when Joseph Andrews was written. This is helpful in understanding the different movements of thought and rhetorical approach that were characteristic to the Enlightenment.

Lund, Roger D. “Augustan Burlesque and the Genesis of Joseph Andrews.” Studies in Philology 103.1 (2006): 88-119

This article provides a history context for the origins of Joseph Andrews; particularly this article deals with ideas raised in the preface to the novel regarding the difference between the burlesque and the comedy.

Plank, Jeffrey. “The Narrative Forms of Joseph Andrews.”  Papers on Language & Literature 24.2 (1988): 142

This article primarily discusses Fielding’s usage of digressive interlocutor chapters in Joseph Andrews.