02981nam 2200697Ia 450 991078421530332120230617004226.01-281-36527-097866113652711-4039-8172-810.1057/9781403981721(CKB)1000000000342834(EBL)308298(OCoLC)312479125(SSID)ssj0000741742(PQKBManifestationID)12361320(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000741742(PQKBWorkID)10743289(PQKB)10664138(SSID)ssj0000233287(PQKBManifestationID)11220584(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000233287(PQKBWorkID)10238340(PQKB)11455443(DE-He213)978-1-4039-8172-1(MiAaPQ)EBC308298(Au-PeEL)EBL308298(CaPaEBR)ebr10135592(CaONFJC)MIL136527(OCoLC)560466071(EXLCZ)99100000000034283420040609d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe real history of Tom Jones[electronic resource] /John Allen Stevenson1st ed. 2005.New York Palgrave Macmillan20051 online resource (236 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-230-60249-5 1-4039-6643-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: Missing Pictures -- Stuart Ghosts -- Savage Matters -- Black Acts -- Hanging Judges -- Gypsy Kings -- Mirror Plots -- Afterword: Sleepless Nights.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.Identity (Psychology) in literatureFoundlings in literatureIdentity (Psychology) in literature.Foundlings in literature.823.5823/.5Stevenson John Allen1578984MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784215303321The real history of Tom Jones3858707UNINA