TOBIAS SMOLLETT (1721–1771) was a novelist, playwright, journalist, historian, travel writer, critic, translator, editor, and compiler—an eighteenth-century man of letters in the fullest sense of the phrase.
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Alain René Le Sage: The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane
Tobias Smollett, in the preface to his first novel, The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748), acknowledges the influence of Alain René Le Sage’s L’Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane (1715–35 in four …
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François de Salignac de La Mothe Fénelon: The Adventures of Telemachus, the Son of Ulysses
The Adventures of Telemachus is the first critical edition of Tobias Smollett’s 1776 translation of Bishop Fénelon’s 1699 ‚mirror for princes, ‚ written especially for Duc de Burgogne, heir presumpti …
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Alain René Le Sage: The Devil upon Crutches
This is the first reprinting since the eighteenth century—and the first scholarly edition—of Tobias Smollett’s translation of The Devil upon Crutches. First published in France in 1707 as Le Diable b …
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Tobias Smollett: Poems, Plays, and ‚The Briton‘
The poems, plays, and political writings included in this volume are essential to an understanding of Tobias Smollett and the literary and social currents of eighteenth-century England. In introducti …
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Jesse G. Swan: Editing Lives
Central to all post-Renaissance scholarship, textual studies continues to evolve, both in its techniques and methods as well as in the illumination it affords all other areas of modern knowledge. The …
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Peggy Thompson: Beyond Sense and Sensibility
During the last half of the eighteenth century, sensibility and its less celebrated corollary sense were subject to constant variation, critique, and contestation in ways that raise profound question …
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Christopher D. Johnson: New Contexts for Eighteenth-Century British Fiction
New Contexts for Eighteenth-Century British Fiction is a collection of thirteen essays honoring Professor Jerry C. Beasley, who retired from the University of Delaware in 2005. The essays, written by …
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