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The Real History of Tom Jones This page intentionally left blank The Real History of Tom Jones John Allen Stevenson THEREALHISTORYOFTOMJONES © John Allen Stevenson,2005. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2005 978-1-4039-6643-8 All rights reserved.No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. First published in 2005 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN™ 175 Fifth Avenue,New York,N.Y.10010 and Houndmills,Basingstoke,Hampshire,England RG21 6XS Companies and representatives throughout the world. PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the Palgrave Macmillan division of St.Martin’s Press,LLC and of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.Macmillan® is a registered trademark in the United States,United Kingdom and other countries. Palgrave is a registered trademark in the European Union and other countries. ISBN 978-0-230-60249-6 ISBN 978-1-4039-8172-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781403981721 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Stevenson,John Allen. The real history of Tom Jones / John Allen Stevenson. p.cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1.Fielding,Henry,1707–1754.History of Tom Jones.2.Identity (Psychology) in literature.3.Foundlings in literature.I.Title. PR3454.H7S75 2005 823(cid:1).5—dc22 2004053371 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Design by Newgen Imaging Systems (P) Ltd.,Chennai,India. First edition:February 2005 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 for Jilli This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Missing Pictures 1 1. Stuart Ghosts 17 2. Savage Matters 47 3. Black Acts 77 4. Hanging Judges 103 5. Gypsy Kings 125 6. Mirror Plots 159 Afterword: Sleepless Nights 181 Notes 187 Index 219 This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgments I have accumulated considerable intellectual indebtedness in writing this book, and I am not at all sure that the act of acknowledging those debts will repay or even consolidate them, as I would like. Still, it is a pleasure to recollect the generosity of others, gifts of time and learning that have made this a better work than would otherwise have been possible. Versions of much of this study were first presented at various meet- ings of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, and I am grateful to those audiences for their attentive and helpful responses. Earlier and (as I now see) incomplete versions of chapters 1, 3, and 6 appeared as essays in, respectively, ELH, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, and SEL; that material is reprinted here with the permission of these jour- nals, all of whose editorial suggestions and interventions improved my thinking about the ideas I discuss here. I have turned, time and again, to that electronic trove of collective wisdom known as the Eighteenth- Century Interdisciplinary Discussion Group, so ably moderated by Kevin Berland. The C18-L is a rare resource, with an unsurpassed capac- ity to provide information that is both rapid and reliable. Colleagues in the field have helped in innumerable ways, and I hope that the list that follows is complete: Marshall Brown, Alison Conway, Simon Dickie, Frans DeBruyn, Robert Folkenflick, Timothy Erwin, Gary Gautier, Thomas Krise, Thomas Lockwood, Roger Lund, Albert J. Rivero, Jim Rosenheim, Laura Rosenthal, John Sitter, Simon Stern, and Howard Weinbrot. Closer to home, colleagues here at the University of Colorado, Boulder have read portions of this study or provided crucial information: Fred Anderson, Katherine Eggert, Peter Knox, Warren Motte, and Will West, as well as a number of scholars now resident else- where: Margaret Ferguson, Richard Halpern, and David Simpson. For help with some questions of law, I want to thank Sue Chetlin and Michael Heydt. I was fortunate to be a Faculty Fellow in the University of Colorado, Boulder’s Center for Humanities and the Arts in 2000–1, and this study benefitted substantially from that happy and stimulating

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