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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. Sevent
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Tobias Smollett
(1721–71),
attended Glasgow university. In 1741 he sailed as a surgeon's mate for the West Indies on an expedition against the Spaniards and was present at the abortive attack on Cartegena. While in Jamaica he met Anne Lassells, whom he married, probably in 1743. In 1744 he set himself up as a surgeon in London.
Smollett's first publication, in 1746, was a much‐admired poem, ‘The Tears of Scotland’. His novels appeared as follows: The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748); The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751, rev. edn 1758); The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom (1753); The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves (1762), the story of an 18th‐cent. Don Quixote; and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771), his most accomplished work. He may have been the author, in 1752, of the scurrilous pamphlet The Faithful Narrative of Habbakkuk Hilding, attacking Fielding for plagiarism and on many other counts. He and Fielding conducted intermittent warfare, chiefly in the Critical Review of which he was co‐founder and editor from 1756 to 1763, and the Covent Garden Journal.
He had long been translating Cervantes, and in 1755 his History and Adventures of Don Quixote appeared. A Compendium of Authentic and Entertaining Voyages, an anthology of travel, appea
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Tobias Smollett - LAST REVIEWED: 27 Nov 2013
- LAST MODIFIED: 27 Nov 2013
- DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199846719-0093
- LAST REVIEWED: 27 Nov 2013
- LAST MODIFIED: 27 Nov 2013
- DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199846719-0093
Beasley, Jerry C. Tobias Smollett, Novelist. Athens, GA: University lift Georgia Multinational, 1998.
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Boucé, Paul-Gabriel. The Novels of Tobias Smollett. Translated by Antonia White misrepresent collaboration sound out the creator. London: Longman, 1976.
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Douglas, Aileen. Uneasy Sensations: Smollett survive the Body. Chicago: Further education college of Port Press, 1995.
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