LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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Fielding’s Tom Jones
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Richardson’s Pamela
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Dicken’s Great Expectations
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Golding’s Lord of Flies
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Detailed explanation-1: -Tom Jones is his best novel. Fielding himself calls it a comic epic in prose. When Henry Fielding started writing, novel was not a acceptable genre of literature. To make it acceptable he propounded a new theory of the novel.
Detailed explanation-2: -Tom Jones is thus a manifestation of Fielding’s theory of the “comic epic in prose”-a genre which he claimed to have pioneered. Indeed, one cannot deny that in the “great phrase ‘comic epic in prose’, Fielding evoked a critical tradition, claimed his authority, asserted right of the new.
Detailed explanation-3: -The pioneers of the novel were Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, and Sterne. The work of this foursome is of monumental significance, particularly because they were not only our first novelists but some of our best. “Joseph Andrews” published in 1742 is Fielding’s first novel.
Detailed explanation-4: -Answer: It is true that we can term “Joseph Andrews” as a ‘comic-epic poem in prose’ because it has almost all the prerequisites that are important for labeling it as a ‘comic epic poem in prose’. Fielding himself termed it as a ‘comic-epic poem in prose’ in the ‘preface to Joseph Andrews’.
Detailed explanation-5: -“Henry Fielding: The Comic Epic in Prose.”