Fielding's Bill of Fare and Cookery Books

Henry Fielding begins Tom Jones (1749) with a chapter titled 'The Introduction to the Work, or Bill of Fare to the Feast', which introduces a metaphor much discussed by critics. Henry Power, the most recent and most thorough, declares that 'the composition and the consumption of Tom J...

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Published in:	Notes and queries 2018-06, Vol.65 (2), p.235-237
Main Author:	Evans, James E
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	1700-1799 Authors cook books Cookery Books Cooking Eighteenth Century English Literature Fielding, Henry Fielding, Henry (1707-1754) Food food metaphor Metaphor novel Novels The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling Tom Jones
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Summary:	Henry Fielding begins Tom Jones (1749) with a chapter titled 'The Introduction to the Work, or Bill of Fare to the Feast', which introduces a metaphor much discussed by critics. Henry Power, the most recent and most thorough, declares that 'the composition and the consumption of Tom Jones ... are described in terms of food'; 'the narrator's preoccupation with food', he adds, 'continues throughout the novel, providing the raw material for a host of metaphors'. Power and others have identified sources for the bill of fare trope, including 'A Digression in the Modern Kind' in Jonathan Swift's A Tale of a Tub (1704).
ISSN:	1471-6941 0029-3970 1471-6941