Henry Fielding,incontrovertibly praised as " the father of English novels,deserves another recognition,much more significantly,the first theorist on the obit of English novel with the theory of " comic epic ...Henry Fielding,incontrovertibly praised as " the father of English novels,deserves another recognition,much more significantly,the first theorist on the obit of English novel with the theory of " comic epic poem in prose" as an attempt to revolt against new-classicism.This attempt,despite its revolutionary and bold flavor,is immature and incomplete,which is bound to be attributed to the general context of neo-classicism against which Fielding vigorously averted but inevitably leaned.展开更多
文摘Henry Fielding,incontrovertibly praised as " the father of English novels,deserves another recognition,much more significantly,the first theorist on the obit of English novel with the theory of " comic epic poem in prose" as an attempt to revolt against new-classicism.This attempt,despite its revolutionary and bold flavor,is immature and incomplete,which is bound to be attributed to the general context of neo-classicism against which Fielding vigorously averted but inevitably leaned.
