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A picaresque novel and as such, eminently forgettable and largely tedious. I can understand the importance of the book for the time it was written in, but unless you really enjoy “adventures” and plot elements that inevitably contrive to farce, then this isn’t for you.
It wasn’t for me.
So, why are we bothering with it at all? Well, the novel at the time Fielding wrote Joseph (1742) was a fairly predictable affair. Rules that heavily defined British society had constrained the novel within it’s ow ...more
It wasn’t for me.
So, why are we bothering with it at all? Well, the novel at the time Fielding wrote Joseph (1742) was a fairly predictable affair. Rules that heavily defined British society had constrained the novel within it’s ow ...more
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Proof that "post modernism" is the same thing as "modernism", Joseph Andrews is as pomo as anything by john barthes, witty, self conscious and self referential as all hell, don't let the 1740s pub date fool you.
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Nov 23, 2009
Maria
marked it as to-read
Mar 17, 2013
Virginia
marked it as 1001-books-to-go
