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Henry Fielding, the Scriblerians, and the Consumption of Ancient Epic

亨利·菲尔丁、抄写员和古代史诗的消费

基本信息

批准号：
AH/I004114/1
负责人：
Henry Power
金额：
$ 6.75万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Fellowship
财政年份：
2011
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2011 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FI004114%2F1
关键词：
Henry Fielding Scriblerians Consumption Ancient

项目摘要

Henry Fielding was always keen to stress that his novels were modelled on classical epic. Equally, he was fascinated by - and wrote at length about - the fact that they were objects to be consumed. He recognised that he wrote in an age when an author had to consider himself as a businessman, catering to a discerning clientele. In describing his work, he alludes (sometimes within the same sentence) both to Homeric epic and to cookery books.Critics have not realised how strange it was for him simultaneously to stress his work's classical origins and its eventual consumption. Fielding wrote in the shadow of a group of authors known as the 'Scriblerians' - foremost among them Jonathan Swift, John Gay, and Alexander Pope. Early in his career, he even signed himself 'Scriblerus Secundus'. But Swift, Gay, and Pope had all recoiled from the idea that classical literature might be subject to the values of the marketplace. Pope, for example, published a 'Receipt to Make an Epick Poem', in which he poured scorn on the idea that the same set of rules might apply to cookery and literature.This project examines the way in which Fielding's reading of classical literature draws on those of the previous generation of writers. It will examine the extent to which Fielding rejects the literary manifesto of Swift, Gay, and Pope. Drawing on a wide variety of sources (including works of classical scholarship and eighteenth-century cookery writing), it will offer a fuller picture than has previously been available of Fielding's practice as a novelist, and of his theory of the novel. It will build on exciting recent work in the field of classical reception, establishing the influence of ancient literature on the early novel. It will also offer a portrait of the way in which literature was consumed in the first half of the eighteenth century.

亨利菲尔丁总是热衷于强调他的小说是以古典史诗为蓝本的。同样，他着迷于--并详细地写了--它们是被消费的对象。他认识到，他写作的时代，一个作家必须把自己视为一个商人，迎合挑剔的客户。在描述他的作品时，他提到（有时在同一句话中）荷马史诗和烹饪书。评论家们没有意识到，他同时强调他的作品的古典起源和最终的消费是多么奇怪。菲尔丁在一群被称为“Scriblerians”的作家的阴影下写作--其中最重要的是乔纳森·斯威夫特、约翰·盖伊和亚历山大·波普。在他的职业生涯早期，他甚至签署了自己的“Scribleus Secundus”。但是斯威夫特、盖伊和蒲柏都对古典文学可能受制于市场价值的想法感到畏缩。例如，蒲柏出版了一本《作一首精选诗的收据》，其中他对烹饪和文学可能适用同样一套规则的想法嗤之以鼻。本项目考察了菲尔丁对古典文学的阅读是如何借鉴上一代作家的。它将研究菲尔丁拒绝斯威夫特，盖伊和波普的文学宣言的程度。本书参考了各种各样的资料（包括古典学术著作和18世纪的烹饪著作），对菲尔丁作为小说家的实践和他的小说理论提供了比以前更全面的描述。它将建立在经典接受领域令人兴奋的最新工作，建立古代文学对早期小说的影响。它还将提供一个肖像的方式，文学是消费在上半个十八世纪。