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.
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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.
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