Shamela, Henry Fielding | Further Reading
FURTHER READING
CRITICISM
Baguley, David. “Parody and the Realist Novel.” University of Toronto Quarterly: A Canadian Journal of the Humanities 55, no. 1 (fall 1985): 94-108.
Discusses the relationship between parodies and parodying texts, including Shamela and Pamela.
Baker, Sheridan. Introduction to Joseph Andrews and Shamela, by Henry Fielding, pp. xi-xxx. New York: Crowell, 1972.
Surveys Fielding's career and presents an overview of the two novels, claiming that with Shamela English fiction becomes “literate” because the work generates its meaning from other literature.
Battestin, Martin C. Introduction to Joseph Andrews and Shamela, by Henry Fielding, pp. v-xi. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1961.
Appreciates Shamela's lusty good humor but sees it as little more than a parody.
Davis, Joe Lee. “Criticism and Parody.” Thought 26 (1951):...
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