From Epic to Novel——A Stylistic Study on the History of Tom Jones a Foundling

This article takes Henry Fielding's novel Tom Jones as its object to make a textual analysis.It can be easily seen that novel as a literature type just derived from the process of breaking the narrative and aesthetic distance of traditional epic.

This article takes Henry Fielding's novel Tom Jones as its object to make a textnal analysis.It can be easily seen that novel as a literature type just derived from the process of breaking the narrative and aesthetic distance of traditional epic.