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The real history of Tom Jones / / John Allen Stevenson



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Autore: Stevenson John Allen Visualizza persona
Titolo: The real history of Tom Jones / / John Allen Stevenson Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
Edizione: 1st ed. 2005.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (236 p.)
Disciplina: 823.5
823/.5
Soggetto topico: Identity (Psychology) in literature
Foundlings in literature
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Introduction: Missing Pictures -- Stuart Ghosts -- Savage Matters -- Black Acts -- Hanging Judges -- Gypsy Kings -- Mirror Plots -- Afterword: Sleepless Nights.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: The real history of Tom Jones  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-281-36527-0
9786611365271
1-4039-8172-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910828632203321
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