Epic into Novel examines the work of Henry Fielding alongside other key eighteenth-century writers to examine how the conflicting influences of the classical tradition and the new literary marketplace were reconciled.

• 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'

Henry Power is Professor of English at the University of Exeter