Author: Tobias SmollettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
Author: Tobias SmollettThe Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
Author: Tobias SmollettThe 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 Expedition of Humphry Clinker
Author: Tobias SmollettPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
Author: Tobias SmollettThe Works of Tobias Smollett: Roderick Random, 1895-1900
Author: Tobias SmollettThe Devil Upon Crutches
Author: Alain René Le SageThe Adventures of Roderick Random (Esprios Classics)
Author: Tobias SmollettPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1716126584
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Travels Through France and Italy
Author: Tobias SmollettPublisher: NuVision Publications, LLC
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Tobias Smollett in the Enlightenment
Author: Richard J. JonesPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611480485
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Tobias Smollett (1721-1771) is best known today as a novelist, but in the eighteenth-century, he was regarded as a historian and critic. In this book, Richard J. Jones explores the diversity of Smollett's journalistic and literary writings and establishes new connections between Smollett's work and writers of the Scottish Enlightenment. The book takes as its focal point Smollett's visit to Nice, between 1763 and 1765, and the account he wrote of it in Travels through France and Italy (1766). This account is usually seen as a "travel narrative" but Jones argues that it should be read as a "pocket encyclopedia" in the tradition of Voltaire. Jones divides his study into sections on medicine, fine art, the theater and history. In doing so, he offers a productive juxtaposition of authors, texts and contexts, presenting Smollett as a writer whose Scottish (and particularly Glaswegian) identity informed his involvement in a wider European Enlightenment.