Vol. 4, Issue 11, Part D (2018)

Abstract
Though Henry Fielding’s Joseph Andrews is episodic and open in its construction, yet it cannot be denied that it is thoroughly plotted and its author is a master craftsman. No wonder, then, it has definite and pointed beginning, middle and ending, and it is difficult to disagree with Andrew Wright who holds that there is "an engraftment of sentimental dramatic plot upon the picaresque structure." In a way, this novel stands somewhere between the picaresque narrative and the intensive, well-made novel.