ANQ, June 22nd, 2000
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 Masters of English Fiction, Tobias Smollett has never enjoyed the reputation as a craftsman accorded his contemporaries Richardson, Fielding, and Sterne. Jerry C. Beasley strives to remedy that underappreciation by reassessing Smollett's narrative aims and technique. Given the disarrangement and deconstruction of ...
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