E-Books →Epic into Novel Henry Fielding, Scriblerian Satire, and the Consumption of Classical Literature

This interest in the place of the ancients in a world of consumerism was inherited from the previous generation of satirists. The 'Scriblerians'-among them Jonathan Swift, John Gay, and Alexander Pope-repeatedly suggest in their work that classical values are at odds with modern tastes and appetites. Fielding, who had idolized these writers as a young man, developed many of their satiric routines in his own writing. But Fielding broke from Swift, Gay, and Pope in creating a version of epic designed to appeal to modern consumers.
Henry Power draws on a range of sources-including eighteenth-century cookery books as well as works of classical literature-to offer fresh readings of works by Swift, Gay, and Pope, and of Fielding's major novels.
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