Abstract:

Cervantes’ novel Don Quixote (1605) has been an inspiration for the works of many artists,  and Henry Fielding himself on the title page of his novel accepts that Joseph  Andrews (1742) was written in imitation of the manner of Cervantes, the author of  Don Quixote. Moving from this point, the ideas developed in this paper are an attempt  to study the thematic and formal similarities between Don Quixote and Joseph  Andrews with an intertextual approach. In this respect, this article explores such  literary elements as satire, parody, picaresque novel, and the Quixotic character  employed both in Don Quixote and Joseph Andrews comparatively and this study,  hence, argues that reading Joseph Andrews through Don Quixote and a comparison  between them will provide the reader with a possibility of new insights about the text.

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