The Real History of Tom Jones (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)

"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.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2005
First published:	2005
Authors:	J. Stevenson
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 9mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	225
Edition:	2005 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4039-6643-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
LSN:	1-4039-6643-5
Barcode:	9781403966438

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