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Tobias Smollett

Tobias Smollett
Author: Lionel Kelly
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 399
Release: 1995
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0415134269

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The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the work themselves.


The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves

The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
Author: Tobias Smollett
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2014-01-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 082034608X

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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 Devil Upon Crutches

The Devil Upon Crutches
Author: Alain René Le Sage
Publisher:
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1759
Genre:
ISBN:

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Poems, Plays, and "The Briton"

Poems, Plays, and
Author: Tobias Smollett
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 670
Release: 1993
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0820314285

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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.


The Essential Tobias Smollett Collection

The Essential Tobias Smollett Collection
Author: Tobias George Smollett
Publisher: eBookIt.com
Total Pages: 2862
Release: 2013-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1456614061

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Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by Tobias Smollett The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle The Adventures of Roderick Random The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves The Expedition of Humphry Clinker Travels Through France And Italy