Download or read book The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle written by Tobias Smollett and published by . This book was released on 1815 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Expedition of Humphry Clinker written by Tobias Smollett and published by . This book was released on 1785 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Essay on the External Use of Water written by Tobias Smollett and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tobias Smollett Bicentennial Essays Presented to Lewis M Knapp written by Lewis Mansfield Knapp and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This stunning interactive illustrated book comprises of an authoritative account of each of the past tournaments and includes a preview of the 2010 World Cup."--Blurb
Download or read book The Adventures of Roderick Random Esprios Classics written by Tobias Smollett and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 1812 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom written by Tobias Smollett and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves written by Tobias Smollett and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Later Career of Tobias Smollett written by Louis Lohr Martz and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The present study is not a biography; nor does it represent a complete examination of everything which Smollett wrote after 1753, the date which I have chosen to mark the beginning of Smollett's "later career". Most of this study is limited to waht appears to be the most important and the most neglected aspect of Smollett's later career - an aspect linked with a dominant intellectual trend of the eighteenth century. It has long been noted that Smollett's later creative works, 'Travels through France and Italy', 'Adventures of an atom', and 'Humphry Clinker', are radically different from his earlier creative works, 'Roderick Random', 'Peregrine Pickle', and 'Ferdinand Count Fathom'. It has also been noted, much less frequently, that his prose style underwent a considerable change in the later works. But the causes and exact nature of these changes have barely been suggested. Between 1753 and 1766 Smollett published no creative work except 'Sir Launcelot Greaves', some small pieces of verse and the short farce, 'The reprisal'; and it has long been known taht these years of his life were chiefly occupied by manifold literary drudgery: compiling, editing, translating, reviewing, pamphleteering. But the nature and extent of these labors have never been adequately investigated. These gaps in our knowledge of Smollett are intimately related. A study of Smollett's literary drudgery reveals the fundamental causes and helps to ascertain the nature of the changes found in Smollett's later creative works. A study of Smollett's compilations, in particular, helps to connect the later creative works with the contemporary trend toward the accumulation and synthesis of facts, historical, topographical, and scientific. In the gradual movement towards classification and synthesis of knowledge, Smollett's work as editor and compiler proves to be of prime significance. This trend also appears to have a strong connection with the peculiar prose style known as "Johnsonian"." -- preface, p. [vii].
Download or read book Dissertations in English and American Literature written by Laurence F. McNamee and published by New York : Bowker. This book was released on 1968 with total page 1148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Travels Through France and Italy written by Tobias Smollett and published by NuVision Publications, LLC. This book was released on 1949 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tobias Smollett written by William Henry Oliphant Smeaton and published by Charles Scribner's Sons. This book was released on 2014-11-28 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Example in this ebook CHAPTER I : BIRTH—PARENTAGE—EARLY YEARS ‘Every successful novelist must be more or less a poet, even though he may never have written a line of verse. The quality of imagination is absolutely indispensable to him.... Smollett was a poet of distinction!’ Such was the estimate formed by Sir Walter Scott—one of the most incisive and sympathetic critics that ever pronounced judgment—of the element of inspiration in every great writer of fiction. Experimentally conscious of what was of value in his own case,—himself the great Wizard of Fiction,—he would reason by analogy what would be of power to inspire other men. If the poetic faculty were indispensable for the production of The Heart of Midlothian and Ivanhoe, equally would it be needed in Peregrine Pickle and Humphrey Clinker. That the poetic stimulus is the most powerful of all, is a truth that has been remarked times and oft. That it forms the true key to unlock the otherwise elusive and self–centred character of Tobias George Smollett, has not, I think, previously been noted. To write Smollett’s life with absolute impartiality is more than ordinarily difficult. The creator of Roderick Random was one for whom a generous charity would require to make more allowances than man is commonly called upon to make for man. Actions and utterances that might be and were mistaken for irritation and shortness of temper, were in reality due to the impatience of genius, chafing under the restrictions laid upon it by the mental torpor or intellectual sluggishness of others. The eagle eye of his genius perceived intuitively what other men generally attain only as the result of ratiocinative process. Smollett has unjustly been characterised as bad–tempered, choleric, supercilious, and the like, simply because the key was lacking to his character. Far indeed from being any of these was he. Impatient without doubt he was, but by no means in larger measure than Carlyle, Tennyson, Dickens, Goethe, or Schiller, and the feeling is wrongly defined as impatience. It is rather the desire to give less intellectually nimble companions a fillip up in the mental race, that they may not lag so far behind as to make intercourse a martyrdom. Smollett’s distinguishing characteristic in the great gallery of eighteenth–century novelists was his exhaustless fertility. In his four great novels, Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, Ferdinand Count Fathom, and Humphrey Clinker, he has employed as many incidents, developed as many striking situations, and utilised as many happily conceived accidents of time and place, as Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Henry Mackenzie, and Mrs. Radcliffe put together. His invention is marvellously fertile, and as felicitous as fertile. He makes no attempt to excel in what may be termed the ‘architectonic’ faculty, or the symmetrical evolution and interweaving of plot. Incident succeeds incident, fact follows fact, and scene, scene, in the most bewildering profusion. There is a prodigality visible, nay, an intellectual waste, indicative of an imaginative wealth almost unique since the days of Homer. By some critics, following in the footsteps of Sir Walter Scott, a curious vagary has been rendered fashionable of introducing the method of comparative analysis into every literary judgment. In place of declaring in plain, straightforward terms the reason why they either admire or censure the works of a man of genius, they must now drag in somebody else, with whom he is supposed to present points of affinity or contrast, and they glibly descant on the attributes wherein the author under consideration surpasses or falls short of his rival, what elements and qualities of style the one possesses which the other lacks, until in the end the reader is thoroughly befogged to know which is which and who is who. The higher criticism has its place in literary judgments as well as in theological, and the change is not for the better. To be continue in this ebook
Download or read book Yale Studies in English written by Louis Lohr Martz and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tobias Smollett a Reference Guide written by Robert Donald Spector and published by Hall Reference Books. This book was released on 1980 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Systems Failure written by Andrew Franta and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How eighteenth-century writers stretched systems designed to explain social relations to their breaking point, showing the flaws in their design. The Enlightenment has long been understood—and often understood itself—as an age of systems. In 1759, Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, one of the architects of the Encyclopédie, claimed that "the true system of the world has been recognized, developed, and perfected." In Systems Failure, Andrew Franta challenges this view by exploring the fascination with failure and obsession with unpredictable social forces in a range of English authors from Samuel Johnson to Jane Austen. Franta argues that attempts to extend the Enlightenment's systematic spirit to the social world prompted many prominent authors to reject the idea that knowledge is synonymous with system. In readings of texts ranging from novels by Sterne, Smollett, Godwin, and Austen to Johnson's literary biographies and De Quincey's periodical essays, Franta shows how writers repeatedly take up civil and cultural institutions designed to rationalize society only to reveal the weaknesses that inevitably undermine their organizational and explanatory power. Diverging from influential accounts of the rise of the novel, Systems Failure audaciously reveals that, in addition to representing individual experience and social reality, the novel was also a vehicle for thinking about how the social world resists attempts to explain or comprehend it. Franta contends that to appreciate the power of systems in the literature of the long eighteenth century, we must pay attention to how often they fail—and how many of them are created for the express purpose of failing. In this unraveling, literature arrives at its most penetrating insights about the structure of social life.
Download or read book Tobias Smollett written by Arnold Whitridge and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book English Literature Volume 2 written by Louis A. Landa and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two volumes containing the annual bibliographies of 18th century scholarship published in the Philological Quarterly. "An excellent aid to the student of 18th century literature."—Saturday Review. Volume 2, 1939-1950, includes consolidated index for both volumes. Originally published in 1952. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
