The Miscellaneous Writings of Tobias Smollett

Herausgeber: Brack, O M; Keithley, Walter H.; Chilton, Leslie

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Produktbeschreibung

Tobias Smollett (1721-71) is best known as a novelist; however this prolific and talented author was also a notable historian, literary critic, translator, medical writer and satirist. This volume will help us to reassess our understanding of Smollett by presenting some of his most significant miscellaneous writings in a new critical edition.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 490
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 895g
• ISBN-13: 9781848935037
• ISBN-10: 184893503X
• Artikelnr.: 43543499

Autorenporträt

O. M. BrackJr., Leslie Chilton, Walter H. Keithley

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Thomsonus Redivivus and Don Ricardo Honeywater Vindicated;
Chapter 2 A Faithful Narrative of the Base and Inhuman Arts That were
Lately Practised Upon the Brain of Habbakkuk Hilding (1752); Chapter 3 An
Essay on the External Use of Water (1752); Chapter 4 Micromegas: A Comic
Romance, Being a Severe Satire Upon the Philosophy, Ignorance, and
Self-Conceit of Mankind, Together with a Detail of the Crusades, and a New
Plan for the History of the Human Mind (1752); Chapter 5 Advertisement to
William Smellie's a Collection of Preternatural Cases and Observations in
Midwifery (1764); Chapter 6 Smollett as Editor and Literary Reviewer;
Chapter 7 The Present State of All Nations (1768-9);