SOURCE: "Joseph Andrews and the Failure of Authority," in Critical Essays on Henry Fielding, edited by Albert J. Rivero, G.K. Hall & Co., 1998, pp. 69-82. Originally published in Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 4, 1992, pp. 109-24.
In the following essay, originally published in 1992 and reprinted in 1998, Knight examines Fielding's narrative style in Joseph Andrews, arguing that the text's heterogeneous construction emphasizes the mutual relationship between author and reader made possible by the emerging genre of the novel.
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