Henry Fielding's Theory of the Comic Prose

Epic
by Ethel Margaret Thornbury. 204 pgs.
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publication details
Contributors:

Ethel Margaret Thornbury

Publisher:

University of Wisconsin

Place of Publication:

Publication Year:

1931
Subjects: Criticism, Comic, The, Fielding, Henry,--1707-1754, Epic poetry--History and criticism
Table of contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I Fielding's Library 7
II The General Problem of the Modern Epic 20
III French Epics and Epic Theories of the Seventeenth 38
Century
IV FénéLon, Boileau, Le Bossu, and Madame Dacier 53
V Epic Theory in England, Dryden to Fielding 70
VI The Definition of the Comic Prose Epic--Joseph 95
Andrews
VII Development of Principles of Epic Structure--Tom 112
Jones
VII The Verisimilar and the Marvellous 132
I
IX Fielding's Theory of Comedy 151
X Conclusion 164
Appendix 168
Bibliography 190