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UNINA9910970551003321 |
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Autore |
Stevenson John Allen |
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Titolo |
The Real History of Tom Jones / / by J. Stevenson |
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New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2005 |
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ISBN |
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9786611365271 |
9781281365279 |
1281365270 |
9781403981721 |
1403981728 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2005.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (236 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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European literature |
Literature, Modern - 18th century |
European literature - Renaissance, 1450-1600 |
Fiction |
European Literature |
Eighteenth-Century Literature |
Early Modern and Renaissance Literature |
Fiction Literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: Missing Pictures -- Stuart Ghosts -- Savage Matters -- Black Acts -- Hanging Judges -- Gypsy Kings -- Mirror Plots -- Afterword: Sleepless Nights. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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