"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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