Tobias Smollett in the enlightenment :: travels through France, Italy, and Scotland /

Tobias Smollett (1721-71) is best known today as a novelist. In the eighteenth-century, he was regarded as a historian and critic. In this book, Richard J. Jones explores the diversity of Smollett's journalistic and literary writings and establishes new connections between Smollett's work...

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1. Verfasser: Jones, Richard J., 1972-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Lewisburg [Pa.] : Lanham, Md. : Bucknell University Press ; co-published with the Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, c2011.
Schriftenreihe:Transits (Bucknell University)
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Zusammenfassung:Tobias Smollett (1721-71) is best known today as a novelist. In the eighteenth-century, he was regarded as a historian and critic. In this book, Richard J. Jones explores the diversity of Smollett's journalistic and literary writings and establishes new connections between Smollett's work and writers of the Scottish Enlightenment. The book takes as its focal point Smollett's visit to Nice, between 1763 and 1765, and the account he wrote of it in Travels through France and Italy (1766). This account is usually seen as a 'travel narrative' but Jones argues that it should be read as a 'pocket enc.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (x, 221 p.).
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781611480498
1611480493
128327325X
9781283273251
9786613273253
6613273252

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