Table of Contents

Introduction: 'Modern Dinners'
1: 'Mackarel a Week after the Season': Swift and the Durability of Epic
2: John Gay's Art of Walking the Streets
3: Alexander Pope: 'Fragments, not a Meal'
4: Joseph Andrews: 'The Sanction of Great Antiquity'
5: Tom Jones I: 'The Cookery of the Author'
6: Tom Jones II: Fielding's Sagacious Reader.
6: Amelia: 'Talk not to me of Dinners'

About the Author

Henry Power is Professor of English at the University of Exeter

Reviews

"In sum, Power's Epic into Novel offers a scholarly, impressively learned and broadly contextualised re-reading of Fielding's contribution to the bridging of the gap between the classical and the modern." --Jakub Lipski, The Shandean"...while this fascinating book offers much original material to interest experts, its lucid and elegant style also makes it an excellent introduction to classical reception in this period." -- Bryn Mawr Classical Review