Real History of Tom Jones

JOHN ALLEN STEVESON is Chair and Associate Professor of English at the University of Colorado-Boulder, USA.

• Stuart Ghosts Savage Matters Black Acts Hanging Judges Gypsy Kings Mirror Plots

'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