Contents
Part 1: Introduction
The life of Henry Fielding
Literary background to Tom Jones
A note on the text
Part 2: Summaries
A general summary
Detailed summaries
General glossary
Part 3: Commentary
Fielding's purpose
Fielding's morality: 'good nature
Eighteenth-century politics
Fielding's debt to the classics
Tom Jones and the theatre
Part 4: Hints for study
Points for detailed study
Selecting quotations and answering questions on Tom Jones
Specimen questions and answers
Part 5: Suggestions for further reading
The author of these notes