Tobias Smollett Scotlands First Novelist

Author : Paul-Gabriel Boucé
Publisher : Associated University Presse
ISBN 13 : 9780874139884
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tobias Smollett, Scotland's First Novelist written by Paul-Gabriel Boucé and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2007 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes a look at issues raised not only in Smollett's novels, for which he is usually remembered, but also in other works of this prolific Scottish author.

Author : Tobias George Smollett
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 159605509X
Total Pages : 341 pages
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Download or read book The Expedition of Humphry Clinker written by Tobias George Smollett and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before I was born, [my aunt] had gone such lengths in the way of flirting with a recruiting officer, that her reputation was a little singed. She afterwards made advances to the curate of the parish...-from "To Sir Watkin Phillips, of Jesus college, Oxon, Bath, May 6"An often overlooked but nevertheless important name in the history of the English novel, Tobias Smollett greatly influenced Dickens, with his unsentimental depiction of poverty, and was a favorite of William Makepeace Thackeray, who called The Expedition of Humphry Clinker "the most laughable story that has ever been written since the goodly art of novel-writing began."An early example of the epistolary novel, consisting entirely of letters written between its characters, this is Smollett's last book, completed and published just before his death in 1771. Far less brutal than his earlier work, it is the comic story of Humphry Clinker, a poor lad who joins a touring party of aristocrats on their journey through city and country. Smollett's satire on the well-to-do and the fripperies that consumed their society echoes in countless writers who came after him, from Jane Austen to "Bridget Jones" with her diary.Scottish writer TOBIAS GEORGE SMOLLETT (1721-1771) trained as a surgeon but found far more success as a novelist; he also worked as an editor and translator. Among his works are Roderick Random (1748) and The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751).

Author : Tobias Smollett
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820314285
Total Pages : 670 pages
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Download or read book Poems, Plays, and "The Briton" written by Tobias Smollett and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems, plays, and political writings included in this volume are essential to an understanding of Tobias Smollett and the literary and social currents of eighteenth-century England. In introductions to the separate sections of the volume, Byron Gassman identifies the circumstances that prompted Smollett to undertake these writings, traces the history of their publication and reception, and provides extensive explanations of historical and literary allusions. The poems in the volume represent Smollett's entire achievement as a poet. Among the shorter poems are "A New Song," his first printed work; "The Tears of Scotland," an early expression of his defiant spirit; and the popular "Ode to Independence," written during the last decade of his life. Two longer works, "Advice" (1746) and its sequel, "Reproof" (1747), are satires written in Popean heroic couplets; they mark the beginnings of Smollett's attacks on theater managers, corrupt politicians, iniquitous military leaders, and other well-known personalities of the day. An appendix to this volume includes five additional poems assigned but not definitely attributed to Smollett. The Reprisal; or The Tars of Old England and The Regicide are the only extant plays by Smollett. The Regicide, written when the author was only eighteen or nineteen, dramatizes the story of the murder of James I of Scotland. The Reprisal, a patriotic comedy performed as an afterpiece at the Theatre Royal, was a moderate theatrical success. Smollett's political writings for The Briton, a weekly journal he established in 1762 for defending the policies of the Earl of Bute, mark a particularly painful period in the author's life. A paper war erupted with the first number, and Smollett and Bute became the objects of scathing counterattacks, particularly in the writings of John Wilkes. This volume brings together for the first time all issues of The Briton and also includes a key identifying the weekly's numerous elliptical references to persons and places.

Author : William Henry Oliphant Smeaton
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tobias Smollett written by William Henry Oliphant Smeaton and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tobias Smollett" is a book by William Henry Oliphant which describes the story of a poet of distinction, Tobias George Smollett. This books focus on the life of the poet, years of education, weary tragedy, and other things that surrounds his life and made him who he was. It tells the story of a man of wisdom and excellence in profession and personality.

Author : Tobias Smollett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
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Download or read book The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves written by Tobias Smollett and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tobias Smollett
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
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Download or read book An Essay on the External Use of Water written by Tobias Smollett and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tobias Smollett
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
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Download or read book The Adventures of Roderick Random written by Tobias Smollett and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : T. Smollett
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 818 pages
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Download or read book The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle written by T. Smollett and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle" by T. Smollett. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Tobias George Smollett
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
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Download or read book “The” Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom written by Tobias George Smollett and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard J. Jones
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611480485
Total Pages : 233 pages
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Download or read book Tobias Smollett in the Enlightenment written by Richard J. Jones and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.