Search "Tobias Smollett"
|
|
Tobias Smollett | |
|
About 374 pages (112,159 words) in 16 products |
|
summary from source:
 Tobias Smollett Quotes
100 words, approx. 0 pages
 Tobias Smollett (c. 1721-03-16 - 1771-09-17 ) was a Scottish novelist, translator, historian and editor. Sourced Facts are stubborn things. Translation of Gil Blas . Book x. Chap. 1. (1749) Also used by Jared Elliot in Essay on Field Husbandry , p. 35... 
 
| Name: |
Tobias George Smollett | | Birth Date: |
March 19, 1721 | | Death Date: |
1771 | | Place of Birth: |
Dunbartonshire, Scotland | | Place of Death: |
Italy | | Nationality: |
English | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
writer |
summary from source:
 Biography of Tobias George Smollett
1,279 words, approx. 4 pages
Of the major 18th-century novelists and satirists, the British author and physician Tobias George Smollett (1721-1771) is most clearly identified with the picaresque tradition of novel writing. The variety and extent of Tobias Smollett's interests, his... summary from source:
Biography of Tobias George Smollett
16,715 words, approx. 56 pages
 Tobias Smollett has always been recognized as one of the truly great English novelists of the eighteenth century, the period during which the novel as it is known today emerged and was established as a significant new form of literary expression. But... summary from source:
 Biography of Tobias (George) Smollett
16,165 words, approx. 54 pages
Tobias Smollett has always been recognized as one of the truly great English novelists of the eighteenth century, the period during which the novel as it is known today emerged and established itself as a significant new form of literary expression....
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
summary from source:
 Tobias Smollett Information
704 words, approx. 2 pages
Tobias George Smollett (bapt. 19 March, 1721 – 17 September, 1771) was a Scottish author, best known for his picaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748) and The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle...
summary from source:
 Studies in the Novel Tobias Smollett: Novelist.(Review)
06/22/1999: 1,416 words, approx. 5 pages BEASLEY, JERRY C. Tobias Smollett: Novelist (Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1998). x + 259 pp. $45.00. Tobias Smollett's significance in British eighteenth-century letters is indisputable. A prolific and varied author, he wrote-along with much else-a successful history and a controversial book... summary from source:
ANQ Tobias Smollett: Novelist.(Review) (book review)
06/22/2000: 1,422 words, approx. 5 pages BEASLEY, Jerry C. Tobias Smollett: Novelist. Athens: U Georgia P, 1998. xvi, 259 pp. $45.00. Despite his primary responsibility for one of the finest translations of Don Quixote, the enthusiastic appreciation by Dickens, and the recognition by Alan McKillop in the now-standard Early...
Literary Criticism
summary from source:
 Critical Essay by Paul-Gabriel Boucé
11,628 words, approx. 39 pages
In the following excerpt from a translation of Boucé's book, originally published in French in 1971, Boucé focuses closely on Roderick Random to prove his assertion that Smollett did in fact make use of the "real" or "truthfulness" as he saw it to expose the wrongs of eighteenth-century life and that "realism" is a modern term by which Smollett's works have been unfairly criticized.
summary from source:
Critical Essay by David M. Weed
9,269 words, approx. 31 pages
In the following essay, Weed argues that in Humphry Clinker, Smollett depicts some negative effects of commercialism on human society, including rendering men effeminate, causing illness, and the leading to the overall unbalancing of masculine society.
summary from source:
Critical Essay by Douglas Brooks
8,901 words, approx. 30 pages
In the following excerpt, Brooks examines the numerological patterns of certain events and chapters in Smollett's first three satirical novels as well as the meaning behind such symmetry, observing that Smollett's use of numerological symmetry improves with each succeeding novel.
|
Tobias Smollett | |
|
About 374 pages (112,159 words) in 16 products |
|
|
