description: Argues that, although Fielding condemned romance, he shared virtually the same aesthetic assumptions as Mme. de Scudery and other heroic novelists. Calling this tradition of seventeenth-century epics in prose the Heliodoran novel, Lynch analyzes how romance conventions serve a clear aesthetic purpose.
language: English
title: Henry Fielding and the Heliodoran Novel: Romance, Epic and Fielding's New Province of Writing
titlecomplete: Henry Fielding and the Heliodoran Novel: Romance, Epic and Fielding's New Province of Writing
publisher: UNKNO