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The Real History of Tom Jones
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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.
'Stevenson's readings are elegant and original, and his contention that complex counter-currents underlie the novel's surface commitments is generally persuasive. On criminal justic, in particular, Tom Jones has never been more subtly contextualized, and there is a masterly chapter on Fielding's resonse to the infamous Black Act of 1723.' - Times Literary Supplement
Autorentext
JOHN ALLEN STEVESON is Chair and Associate Professor of English at the University of Colorado-Boulder, USA.
Inhalt
Stuart Ghosts Savage Matters Black Acts Hanging Judges Gypsy Kings Mirror Plots
Weitere Informationen
- Allgemeine Informationen
- GTIN 09781403966438
- Sprache Englisch
- Auflage 2005
- Größe H18mm x B140mm x T216mm
- Jahr 2005
- EAN 9781403966438
- Format Fester Einband
- ISBN 978-1-4039-6643-8
- Titel The Real History of Tom Jones
- Autor J. Stevenson
- Gewicht 394g
- Herausgeber SPRINGER VERLAG GMBH
- Anzahl Seiten 225
- Lesemotiv Verstehen
- Genre Linguistics & Literature