TWAYNE'S MASTERWORK STUDIES Tom m Jones Adventure and Providence Patrick Reilly !^^| V 'o% I i TOMjONES Adventure and Providence Twayne's Masterwork Studies Robert Lecker, General Editor TOMjONES Adventure and Providence Patrick Reilly Twayne Publishers • Boston A DIVISION OFG. K. HALL & CO. 1 TomJones: Adventure and Providence Patrick Rcilly Twayiic's Mastcrwork Studies No. 72 Copyright 1991 by G. K. Hall & Co. All rights reserved. Published by Twayne Publishers A division ofG. K. Hall & Co. 70 Lincoln Street Boston, Massachusetts 0211 Copyediting supervised by Barbara Sutton. Book production by Gabrielle B. McDonald. Typeset in Sabon with Bembo display type by Compset, hic. ofBeverly, Massachusetts. First published 1991. 987654321 10 (HC) 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 (PB) The paper used in this publication meets the minimum r—equirements ofAmerican National Standard for Information Sciences Permanence ofPaper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. Q"" Printed and bound in the United States ofAmerica. Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Reilly, Patrick. TomJones—: adventure and providence / Patrick Reilly. p. cm. (Twayne's masterwork studies ; no. 72) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8057-9422-0 (he : alk. paper).—ISBN 0-8057-8143-9 (pbk : alk. paper) 1. Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754. History ofTomJones. I. Title. II. Series. PR3454.H7R4 1991 823'..5—dc2() 90-22099 CIP For Philip and Rosemary Hobsbaum