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| | Tobias Smollett |
 | | SMOLLETT, TOBIAS, or, to give him his full name, as it appears in the baptismal record, TOBIAS GEORGE SMOLLETT, a celebrated novelist, poet, and miscellaneous writer, was born in the oldhouse of Dalquhurn, near the modern village of Renton, in the parish of Cardross, Dumbartonshire, in the year 1721. | | | Smollett, in the haste with which he wrote his novel, has evidently proceeded upon the idea of an English Don Quixote; without recollecting that the work of the illustrious Cervantes had a rational aim, in proposing to counteract the rage of the Spanish people for tales of knightly adventure. | | | Smollett went into this enthusiasm, and on the very day of the earl of Bute’s elevation, May 29th, 1762, he started a newspaper entitled "The Briton," in which he laboured to break down the prejudices of the English against a Scottish premier, and undertook the defence of the new administration upon its own merits. |
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| | LIVORNO |
| | Smollett was one of the witnesses, as was Smollett’s landlady when he stayed in Florence in 1764, Signora Vanini. | | | The fact that Smollett’s death was alluded to by His Majesty’s Government’s man in Florence, and not by Sir John Dick, their man in Leghorn, caused John Buchan Telfer (b. | | | Armstrong was the only one of Smollett’s longstanding friends who visited him at Leghorn. |
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| | Brief biography of Tobias George Smollett (1721-1771) |
| | Smollett was interested only in telling a story, without regard for any lesson it might teach or for even the fairly lax conventions of the eighteenth century; indeed, his hero, a man of 'modest merit struggling with every difficulty', was an unprincipled scoundrel. | | | Smollett utilized the older, shapeless form of story telling; the hero wandered across the country, encountering all manner of misadventures 'intended as a satire upon mankind'. | | | The sailors in Roderick Random had been the most life-like and attractive of all the huge cast, and in Smollett's next novel, Peregrine Pickle, he created a sailor equally successful but much more developed as a human being—Commodore Trunnion. |
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| | Alibris: Tobias George Smollett |
| | Smollett was a man of letters in the fullest sense. | | | Smollett's last novel, written when he was mortally ill with tuberculosis, is an epistolary tale recounting the adventures of the Clinker family as they travel in the British Isles. |
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| | George Orwell: Tobias Smollett: Scotland's Best Novelist |
| | Smollett had been for a while in the navy, and in Roderick Random we are given not only an unvarnished account of the Cartagena expedition, but an extraordinarily vivid and disgusting description of the inside of a warship, in those days a sort of floating compendium of disease, discomfort, tyranny and incompetence. | | | Smollett is a picaresque novelist, a writer of long, formless tales full of farcical and improbable adventures. | | | But Smollett's real masterpieces are Roderick Random and Peregrine Pickle, which are frankly pornographic in a harmless way and which contain some of the best passages of sheer farce in the English language. |
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| | Literary Encyclopedia: Smollett, Tobias |
| | Smollett's intention was, he wrote, to convert prose romance to “purposes far more useful and entertaining … and point out the follies of ordinary life”, in order to inculcate “that generous indignation, which ought to animate the reader against the sordid and vicious disposition of the world”. | | | Accordingly, Smollett prefaced his latest work with a fresh critical consideration of novelistic discourse – an important contribution to contemporary critical understandings of the emerging genre. | | | Smollett's early social and literary frustrations make their way into his earliest novel: the partly autobiographical Adventures of Roderick Random. |
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| | A Compendium of Authentic and Entertaining Voyages |
| | Smollett’s Universal History was considerably more cosmopolitan in scope than most of the ‘cosmopolitan histories’ of Enlightenment historians, for which see: Karen O’Brien, Narratives of Enlightenment: Cosmopolitan History from Voltaire to Gibbon (Cambridge University Press, 1997). | | | Firstly, Scottish authors such as Smollett and Thomson were from the outset part of the canon, and secondly the canon was hammered out by the literati of the Scottish Enlightenment — Hume, Smith, Blair and Kames — not by the English. | | | Yet Smollett should not therefore be dismissed as a mere hack too hastily: he did not just crib accounts from other collections of travel accounts, preferring instead to make new redactions for each section of the Compendium. |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Books: Tobias Smollett |
| | Similar to Dickens (who was an admirer), Smollett was wonderful at "painting a word picture," at describing a character's physical appearance as well as the external world. | | | Things could get childish: Smollett was referred to as "Smallwit" and "Smelfungus." Also, as a native of Scotland, Smollett was frequently wounded by nasty comments made by the English concerning himself and his homeland. | | | In witty, charming, but straightforward prose the author tells us why, as a youth, he enjoyed Smollett: he liked the type of humour - there was a lot of farce, sexual and otherwise, and there was a lot of humour based on bodily functions. |
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| | Smollett, Tobias George on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Sentimental misogyny and medicine in 'Humphry Clinker.' (English author Tobias George Smollett's 18th-century novel 'The Expedition of Humphry Clinker') | | | These novels, rich in character, incident, and realistic detail, were drawn largely from Smollett's own wide experience. | | | His novel Sir Lancelot Greaves (1760-62), which is based on Don Quixote, is considered his weakest work. |
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| | The Scotsman - S2 Weekend - Tobias Smollett |
| | While this reviewer savoured every morsel of the life, its flavour was not enough to tempt her to taste the work. | | | The literary canon has posed the question, why should we remember Smollett, and it is a challenge that Jeremy Lewis has taken up with gusto. | | | Dickens acknowledged his influence on his own work; Orwell enjoyed him for his realism; V S Pritchett likened him to James Joyce, praising him for exposing "the nightmare lying behind the Augustan manner". |
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| | E-Cats多言語対応OPAC |
| | The miscellaneous works of Tobias Smollett, with Memoirs of his life and writings ; vol. |
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| | Famous Scots - Tobias George Smollet |
| | During the next few years appeared a number of translations and a "History of England." Smollett was no historian. | | | If elegance of taste and wit, if fertility of genius and an unrivalled talent in delineating the characters of mankind, have ever attracted your admiration, pause awhile on the memory of Tobias Smollett, MD, one more than commonly endowed with these virtues which, in a man or citizen, you would praise or imitate. | | | His first novel, "Roderick Random," published in 1748, embodies Smollett's own experiences in the navy and elsewhere. |
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| | Smollett, Tobias at DustyBookS - search for Tobias Smollett books, used books, out of print books, rare books, books ... |
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| | Count Fathom, part 1 by Tobias Smollett |
| | In chronicling the latter meteoric career, Smollett had already observed the peculiarity of his countrymen which Thackeray was fond of harping on in the next century--"the maxim which universally prevails among the English people. | | | There are, besides, true Smollett strokes in the scenes in the prison from which Melvil rescues Fathom, and there is a good deal of the satirical Smollett fun in the description of Fathom's ups and downs, first as the petted beau, and then as the fashionable doctor. | | | And so forth and so on, in the true Smollett vein. |
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| | Univ. of Georgia Press: Detailed Book Information |
| | Battestin's notes identify Smollett's sources in his "Life of Cervantes" and in his commentary, provide cross-references to his other works, and illustrate Smollett's originality or dependence on previous translations. | | | Also included is a complete textual apparatus, a glossary of unfamiliar terms, and an appendix comparing a selection of Francis Hayman's original illustrations with the engraved renderings used in the book. | | | This authoritative textual edition presents Tobias Smollett's translation of Cervantes's |
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| | Alive : The English of this version of Quixote is clearly of Smollett's own time, the 18th century, but unlike other, more recent translations it is full of life and energy, not academic and dry. | | | avers that, this, the Tobias Smollett English.language translation most faithfully retains the quixotic and sprightly spirit of the original... | | | The book provides the reader with a hero that is memorable... |
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| | Travels through France and Italy by Tobias George Smollett eBook by BookRags |
| | Another effect of Smollett’s book was to whet his own appetite for recording the adventures of the open road. | | | To counteract the ill effects of “spleen and jaundice” and exhibit the spirit of genteel humour and universal benevolence in which a man of sensibility encountered the discomforts of the road, the incorrigible parson Laurence brought out his own Sentimental Journey. | | | Smollett, as we have seen, was one of the first professional men of all work in letters upon a considerable scale who subsisted entirely upon the earnings of his own pen. |
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| | Tobias Smollett |
| | The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker by Tobias Smollett, Bibliomania.com: An easily navigated, but unannotated, edition of Smollett's most famous work. | | | Unfortunately, the novel cries out for annotation when read by undergraduates. | | | Tobias Smollett, a brief biography followed by an unannotated bibliography of the writer's work. |
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| | New Statesman: Carry on, doctor - Tobias Smollett by Jeremy Lewis - Book Review |
| | Smollett translated Cervantes (though be claimed to be "a mere piddler in the Spanish language") and wrote encyclopaedias as well as a bestselling, 2,600-page history of England. | | | He became "the quintessential man of letters, combining the writing of fiction with work as a publisher's editor, an anthologist, a pamphleteer, an historian, a translator, and a pioneering and influential magazine editor". | | | "Quite how Smollett made his way to London we shall never know," confesses Lewis. |
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| | SLAINTE |
| | The expedition to Cartagena later landed him in gaol for libel, when Admiral Knowles published a pamphlet defending his competence in a disastrous raid on Rochefort, and Smollett drew attention to his defects in one of the finest pieces of sustained invective in the English language. | | | Smollett was his own worst enemy and succeeded in offending many people. | | | Smollett was a less prolific novelist than Scott, and his books are not as readable as Stevenson's, but he was the first Scottish novelist and he has never been surpassed. |
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| | The Adventures of Roderick Random by Tobias Smollett |
| | In the dark ages of the World, when a man had rendered himself famous for wisdom or valour, his family and adherents availed themselves of his superior qualities, magnified his virtues, and represented his character and person as sacred and supernatural. | | | The Adventures of Roderick Random by Tobias Smollett |
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| | Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 95001786 |
| | Like many writers of his time, Douglas argues, Smollett was interested in the body and in how accurately it reflects internal disposition. | | | Trained in medicine, Smollett was especially alert to the ways in which the discourses of medicine, philosophy, and law construct (as we would put it now) the body as an object of knowledge, and yet his work always returns to the importance of the physical world of the body and its feelings. | | | But Smollett's special contribution to the eighteenth-century novel is his emphasis on sentience, or the sensations of the physical body. |
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| | ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Smollett Tobias George |
| | Petronius is generally believed to have been the author of a remarkable work of fiction, a satirical romance in prose and verse titled Satyricon (c.... | | | ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Smollett Tobias George | | | Smollett, Tobias George (1721-1771), Scottish novelist, born in Dalquhurn, Dumbarton County, and educated at the University of Glasgow. |
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| | Keats Shelley House |
| | Tobias Smollett, George Eliot, Goethe, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron, the Brownings, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Oscar Wilde and Joyce were just a few of the many who were attracted and inspired by the celebrated 'centro storico'. | | | The exterior of the House is exactly as it was when John Keats travelled to Rome and spent what were to be the last few months of his life in a vain attempt to stave off the inevitable effects of consumption. | | | For generations Piazza di Spagna has been visited by architects, painters, musicians and poets who all lodged here. |
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| | Smollett, Tobias |
| | He is remembered for three humorous, coarse novels: Roderick Random, a series of sea tales; Peregrine Pickle, full of scrapes; and Humphrey Clinker, pronounced by Thackeray, himself touched with coarseness, the most laughable story in the language. | | | You Are Here: Factopia Home » Smollett, Tobias | | | "Facts are stubborn things," is a saying from Smollett. |
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| | Fictionwise eBooks: Tobias Smollett |
| | The book takes the form of a series of letters in which he describes the social life, history, and physical setting of each city he encounters. | | | Sick, irascible, severely prejudiced, and intolerant of pretense, Smollett argues with his hosts and fellow travelers and holds French... | | | The breakdown of Smollett's health and the death of his 15-year-old daughter in 1763 precipitated a year-long journey through France and Italy. |
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| | Infoplease Search: smollett tobias george |
| | (Encyclopedia) Mayer, Johann Tobias, 1723–62, German mathematician and astronomer. | | | (Encyclopedia) Asser, Tobias Michael Carel, 1838–1913, Dutch jurist. | | | (Almanac - People) Wolff, Tobias author Birthplace: Birmingham, Ala. |
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| | Travels through France & Italy by Tobias Smollett |
| | Scientific knowledge, keen observation, or intuitive power of discrimination go far. | | | Portions of the work exhibit literary quality of a high order: as a whole it represents a valuable because a rather uncommon view, and as a literary record of travel it is distinguished by a very exceptional veracity. | | | The case of Smollett's Travels, there is good reason to hope, is only one of suspended animation. |
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| | Creative Quotations from Tobias Smollett (1721-1771) |
| | Research these websites for Tobias Smollett pictures, books, posters and more | | | Check out these Ebay items for Tobias Smollett! | | | Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky." |
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| | THE ADVENTURES OF GIL BLAS OF SANTILLANE |
| | He is speedily inspired with a firm confidence in Lesage's ingenuity, which somehow manages to extricate his hero from every possible embarrassment. | | | Translated from the French by Tobias Smollett with an introduction by William Morton Fullerton. | | | From Smollett and Marivaux to Dickens and Zola, and even to an Anatole France and to a Pio Baroja, Lesage has been the avowed or unavowed model of those writers who have been passionately enamoured of life, and irrepressibly compelled to express it. |
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| | Amazon.ca: Books: Travels Through France and Italy |
| | Look for books like Travels Through France and Italy by subject: | | | Writer Tobias Smollett set off on a journey through France and Italy to relieve a low period in his life. | | | Promising to keep records of inns, prices, and methods of transport for friends who might wish to make the journey, he wrote faithfully. |
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| | Tobias Smollett Homepage and Biography on Bibliomania.com |
| | This was not untypical of his Critical Review work. | | | After the trouncing of the Tory journal Briton by a competitor and the failure of Launcelot Greaves in book form, the downturn in Smollett's fortunes only worsened with the death of his daughter in 1763 and the deterioration of his health. | | | Abandoning his literary endeavours, Smollett upped and left for France and Italy with his wife. |
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| | Tobias Smollett: free web books, online |
| | Smollett then began what he regarded as his major work, A Complete History of England, which took from 1757 to 1765. | | | Smollett followed it up by finally getting his tragedy, The Regicide, published, though it was never performed. | | | Scottish author, best known for his picaresque novels, such as Roderick Random and Peregrine Pickle. |
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| | Tobias Smollett |
| | Although his life was short, Tobias Smollett was the first and is still the most regarded Scottish novelist of all time. | | | The two novels were so successful that Smollett quite his practice of surgery. | | | Much of Smollett’s behavior was believed to have come from his illness. |
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| | The Adventures of Roderick Random:Smollett, Tobias (Author); Blewett, David (Editor/introduction):0140433325:eCampus.com |
| | Although Roderick Random was first published anonymously, the secret of Smollett's authorship was soon discovered, with the result that many readers thought they recognized similarities between the life of the hero and that of his creator. | | | How Random learns to survive the fickle hand of fortune, recovers his long-lost father, marries his beloved Narcissa, and dispatches his enemies is the stuff, not of autobiography but of a novel which profoundly satirizes the moral chaos of its times. | | | Certainly Roderick Random's early years - disinherited and without wealth and influence - and his university career, apprenticeship and service as a naval surgeon, vividly reflect the experiences of the author. |
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| | GO BRITANNIA! Scotland: Great Scots of Note |
| | After the devastating death of his young daughter in 1763, the Smolletts lived for a while in France, but he returned to England to write his famous epistolary novel and masterpiece, The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker (1771), a depiction of English town life. | | | In many of his novels, Smollett substituted racial characterizations for social class, a trick that made his work very popular at a time when the Scots and Welsh, with their strange customs and even stranger languages, were coming to London in increasing numbers. | | | A born story teller, Smollett's uncanny observations of the follies of an adventurous life came from his own experience in the British navy, where he served as second mate to a ship's surgeon in the early 1740's. |
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| | Humphry Clinker |
| | The Expedition of Humphry Clinker was the last of the picaresque novels of Tobias Smollett, first published in 1771, and is considered by many to be Smollett's best and funniest work. | | | It is presented in the form of letters written by five different characters. |
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| | Gil Blas |
| | The version by Tobias Smollet was the first in English and one of the best, although rather free in parts. | | | It is astonishing that so well-known and influential a book should have been allowed to go out of print. | | | Its influence on Smollett's own work is clear (Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle); Fielding (Tom Jones) and Dickens (Nicholas Nickleby) were also heavily influenced by it or its numerous imitators. |
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| | Tobias Smollett |
| | Tobias George Smollett (de marcha la 19 de 1721 - de septiembre el 17 de 1771) era autor escocés, conocido lo más mejor posible para sus novelas del picaresque, tales como salmuera al azar y peregrine de Roderick. | | | English version: Tobias Smollett Next: Río De Brazos Up | | | Smollett entonces comenzó lo que él miró como su trabajo importante, una historia completa de Inglaterra, que tomó a partir la 1757 a 1765. |
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| | Smollett, Tobias: The Expedition of Humphry Clinker |
| | Though Smollett never finished his medical apprenticeship, he was obviously familiar with many of the period's medical concepts. |
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