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Fiction

Notes • The Author’s Farce – play, 1730

• The Tragedy of Tragedies; or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb – play, 1731
• Grub-Street Opera – play, 1731
• The Modern Husband – play, 1732
• The Covent Garden Tragedy – play, 1732
• Pasquin – play, 1736

• The Historical Register for the Year 1736 – play, 1737
• An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews – novel, 1741
• The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and his Friend, Mr. Abraham Abrams
– novel, 1742
• The Life and Death of Jonathan Wild, the Great – novel, 1743, ironic treatment of Jonathan
Wild, and the most notorious underworld figure of the time. Published as Volume 3 of
Miscellanies.
• Miscellanies – collection of works, 1743, contained the poem Part of Juvenal’s Sixth
Satire, Modernized in Burlesque Verse
• The Female Husband or the Surprising History of Mrs Mary alias Mr George Hamilton,
who was convicted of having married a young woman of Wells and lived with her as
her husband, taken from her own mouth since her confinement – pamphlet, fictionalized
report, 1746
• The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling – novel, 1749
• A Journey from this World to the Next – 1749
• Amelia – novel, 1751
• The Covent Garden Journal – periodical, 1752

• Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon – travel narrative, 1755

Self Assessment

Fill in the blanks:
1. The history of the adventures of Joseph Andrews and of his friend .................... , was the
first published full-length novel of the English author.

2. .................... was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich earthy humour
and satirical prowess.
3. In .................... Fielding started a biweekly periodical titled the Covent-garden journal.

1.2 Introduction to the Text—Joseph Andrews

Henry Fielding published his first full novel in 1742, at a time when he was nearly penniless
and expecting the deaths of his young daughter and beloved wife. Joseph Andrews was, then,
a response to personal and financial exigencies, but it was equally a response to that great
literary event of 1740, the publication of Samuel Richardson’s much-debated and oft-lampooned
Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded. Detesting it for both its moral content and its literary method,
Fielding himself had already parodied Richardson’s novel in the anonymously published Shamela,
his classically savage novella of 1741. Joseph Andrews in some ways continues the satirical

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