The real history of Tom Jones

The real history of Tom Jones / John Allen Stevenson.

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...

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Main Author: Stevenson, John Allen (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Subjects:
Fielding, Henry, > 1707-1754. > History of Tom Jones.
History of Tom Jones (Fielding, Henry)
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Foundlings in literature.
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Literature.
Foundlings in literature
Identity (Psychology) in literature
The history of Tom Jones, a foundling (Fielding)
Historische motieven.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Missing Pictures
  • Stuart Ghosts
  • Savage Matters
  • Black Acts
  • Hanging Judges
  • Gypsy Kings
  • Mirror Plots
  • Afterword: Sleepless Nights.

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