Author: Tobias Smollett
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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Author: Jerry C. Beasley
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820319711
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Tobias Smollett (1721-1771) was a man of letters in the fullest sense. He was not only a novelist but also a playwright, poet, journalist, historian, travel writer, critic, translator, and editor. Trained as a physician, he saw the world with acutely sensitive eyes, believing that what was externally visible signified and gave definition to what could be known about the private, interior life. His fiction is therefore distinguished by its intensely visual qualities. Tobias Smollett: Novelist goes beyond all previous critical studies in its attention to these qualities in Smollett's novels, reading them as exercises of a visual imagination. Along with Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, and Sterne, Smollett was one of the major British novelists of his generation. Like his kindred spirit William Hogarth, he was both chronicler and interpreter of what he saw. His episodically structured narratives reflect his vision of a harsh and unpredictable world, while his unforgettable characters display his deep understanding of the individual as moral agent. Jerry C. Beasley's book is both focused and broad in its range, crossing disciplines and genres as it seeks to demonstrate intersections between the graphic and verbal arts, always with an eye to how Smollett crafted his stories. Seventeen illustrations, many of them from works by Hogarth, complement the argument. This book honors Smollett as an author who wrote in an unorthodox but compelling way and makes the complexities of his narratives more accessible than they have ever been before.

Author: Tobias Smollett
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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Author: Tobias Smollett
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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Author: Tobias Smollett
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 448

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Author: Alain René Le Sage
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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Author: Tobias Smollett
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Author: Tobias George Smollett
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Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Author: Tobias Smollett
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Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Author: Richard J. Jones
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611480485
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233

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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.