The Real History of Tom Jones
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The Real History of Tom Jones

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The Real History of Tom Jones

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The Real History of Tom Jones revivifies historical materials from which Henry Fielding constructed the greatest comic novel of the eighteenth century. This study recovers and explores the contexts necessary to understand Fielding's subtle art, such as the bloody conflict for the throne between Stuarts and Hanoverians, a contradictory class system, game laws that both protected and flouted individual property rights, and a justice system that proclaimed hanging for many crimes but let most criminals go. Drawing on evidence such as the peculiar appearance of eighteenth-century money, the fraudulent autobiography of a gypsy king, and a magical prayer book illustration, the book offers new readings of both Tom Jones and the political and legal landscape of Georgian England.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2015
ISBN
9781403981721
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
European Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. The Real History of Tom Jones
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction: Missing Pictures
  6. Chapter 1 Stuart Ghosts
  7. Chapter 2 Savage Matters
  8. Chapter 3 Black Acts
  9. Chapter 4 Hanging Judges
  10. Chapter 5 Gypsy Kings
  11. Chapter 6 Mirror Plots
  12. Afterword: Sleepless Nights
  13. Notes
  14. Index