AN INTERTEXTUAL APPROACH TO CERVANTES’ DON QUIXOTE AND FIELDING’S JOSEPH ANDREWS

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.