Author: Tobias SmollettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The Works: The adventures of Sir Lancelot Greaves
The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
Author: Tobias SmollettPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 082034608X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
This new edition brings to life Tobias Smollett's fourth novel, The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves. No annotated edition of the work existed before the second half of the twentieth century, and this comprehensive edition by Robert Folkenflik and Barbara Laning Fitzpatrick features more accurate text as well as scrupulous textual and critical information. Also included in the detailed introduction is a unique examination of Sir Launcelot Greaves, the first illustrated serial novel, in relation to the engravings by Anthony Walker. Sir Launcelot Greaves was a groundbreaking novel for Smollett. Published in British Magazine beginning in January 1760, it was the first major work by an English novelist to have been written specifically for serial publication. The novel, Smollett's shortest, differs stylistically from his previous works. The most attractive of his heroes, Sir Launcelot is virtuous and strange, and he is surrounded by a Smollettian menagerie whose various jargons are part of this novel's linguistic virtuosity and satire. Sir Launcelot's character is an English naturalization of Quixote. Although Sir Launcelot, unlike Quixote, is not the object of the author's satire, an idealistic madness is central to both characters. In Smollett's work the theme of madness is integral to the relationship between self and society as the work ponders both the constitution of madness and the alternatives to revenge. Sir Launcelot Greaves, though not Smollett's most heralded work, has not received the recognition it deserves. Folkenflik and Fitzpatrick present a definitive edition that will be appreciated by scholars and lovers of eighteenth-century literature.
The Works of Tobias Smollett: The adventures of Roderick Random
Author: Tobias SmollettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
The intermediate text-book of English literature
Author: Walter Humboldt LowN-Z, pages 803-1,110
Author: Brooklyn LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Catalogue...authors, Titles, Subjects, and Classes
Author: Brooklyn Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Catalogue of the Mercantile Library of Brooklyn: N-Z
Author: Mercantile Library Association of BrooklynPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The Scots Magazine
Author: Sir Walter Scott on Novelists and Fiction (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Ioan WilliamsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136823425
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
First published in 1968, this collection of essays and reviews represents all that Sir Walter Scott wrote on the subject of novels and novelists, and will be invaluable for the study of Scott, both as novelist and critic. The work provides a survey of the novel at an important period of its development and offers an historical perspective not normally available in one volume.
Prose fiction
Author: Leeds Public LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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