The Real History of Tom Jones [electronic resource] / by J. Stevenson.
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9781403981721
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/32813
Yazar
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2005.
Yayın Bilgisi
New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Fiziksel Niteleme
X, 225 p. 1 illus. online resource.
Özet, vb.
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.
Konu
European literature.
Literature, Modern __ 18th century.
European literature __ Renaissance, 1450-1600.
Fiction.
European Literature.
Eighteenth-Century Literature.
Early Modern and Renaissance Literature.
Fiction Literature.
Literature, Modern __ 18th century.
European literature __ Renaissance, 1450-1600.
Fiction.
European Literature.
Eighteenth-Century Literature.
Early Modern and Renaissance Literature.
Fiction Literature.
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