| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 232 pages) : illustrations (black and white) |
| Contents |
Introduction: "Modern dinners" -- "Mackerel a week after the season" : Swift and the durability of epic -- John Gay's art of walking the streets -- Alexander Pope : "Fragments, not a meal" -- Joseph Andrews : "The sanction of great antiquity" -- Tom Jones I : "The cookery of the author" -- Tom Jones II : Fielding's sagacious reader -- Amelia : "Talk to me not of dinners." |
| Summary |
'Epic into Novel' examines the work of Henry Fielding alongside other key eighteenth-century writers to examine how the conflicting influences of the classical tradition and the new literary marketplace were reconciled |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754 fast |
| Subject |
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English Literature.
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English.
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Languages & Literatures.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191791178 |
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0191791172 |
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9780191035821 |
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0191035823 |
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0198723873 |
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9780198723875 |
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