03593nam 22009015 450 991097055100332120240702100305.09786611365271978128136527912813652709781403981721140398172810.1057/9781403981721(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(Perlego)3496629(EXLCZ)99100000000034283420151123d2005 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe Real History of Tom Jones /by J. Stevenson1st ed. 2005.New York :Palgrave Macmillan US :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2005.1 online resource (236 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9780230602496 0230602495 9781403966438 1403966435 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.European literatureLiterature, Modern18th centuryEuropean literatureRenaissance, 1450-1600FictionEuropean LiteratureEighteenth-Century LiteratureEarly Modern and Renaissance LiteratureFiction LiteratureEuropean literature.Literature, ModernEuropean literatureFiction.European Literature.Eighteenth-Century Literature.Early Modern and Renaissance Literature.Fiction Literature.823.5823/.5Stevenson John Allen1792171MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910970551003321The Real History of Tom Jones4330369UNINA