Who defined novel as a comic epic in prose?
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Henry Fielding, the author of Tom Jones, once famously defined the novel as a "comic epic in prose." This turns out to be a surprisingly negative definition, when you think about it. A novel is prose, you see, because it's not poetry. It's an epic, since it's not a lyric; novels tell stories rather than set moods.
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