Download or read book Henry Fielding and the Heliodoran Novel written by James J. Lynch and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 1986 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.