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1 online resource (xxix, 698 pages) : illustrations |
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The works of Tobias Smollett |
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Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721-1771.
Works. 1988.
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| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane -- Notes to the Text -- Textual Commentary -- List of Emendations -- Textual Notes -- Word-Division -- Historical Collation |
| Summary |
Tobias Smollett, in the preface to his first novel, The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748), acknowledges the influence of Alain Rene Le Sage's L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane (1715-35 in four volumes) on his work. By far the most successful of "useful and entertaining" romances, Gil Blas, Smollett writes, describes "the knavery and foibles of life, with infinite humour and sagacity." "The following sheets," he adds significantly, "I have modeled on his plan." |
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Smollett's translation of Gil Blas appeared nine months after the publication of Roderick Random. This chronicle of a merry, philosophical young man whose adventures lead him into all levels of society from the highest to the lowest presents special problems for a translator. Smollett, without always adhering to the literal expression of the novel's language, is true to its style, spirit, and ideas. After two and a half centuries, his remains the finest translation of this humorous, satiric, and classic French novel |
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In his early years in London, Smollett struggled to find a way to distinguish himself through his medical practice, medical writings, poetry, and plays. None of these attempts, however, allowed him to demonstrate the full range of his personality and talents. Only when he combined his own boundless imagination with the skills he had learned from translating Gil Blas was he able to create energetic narratives filled with vivid and original characters |
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The Works of Tobias Smollett Alexander Pettit, General Editor Om Brack, Jr., Textual Editor |
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Novelist, playwright, journalist, historian, travel writer, critic, translator, editor, and compiler, Tobias Smollett (1721-71) was an eighteenth--century man of letters in the fullest sense of the phrase. Though his writing has been variously gathered together over the last two centuries, no definitive scholarly edition of Smollett's works has ever been published. The Georgia edition, though not a complete collection, includes all of those writings by which Smollett was best known in his own time and by which he is best remembered in ours |
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Prepared by a distinguished group of scholars, the edition conforms to the highest standards of excellence in historical and textual scholarship. Each volume provides an authoritative text, a substantial historical and critical introduction, and extensive explanatory notes. --Book Jacket |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 17, 2018) |
| Subject |
Aristocracy (Social class) in literature.
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Aristocracy (Political science) in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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FICTION -- Classics.
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Aristocracy (Political science) in literature.
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Aristocracy (Social class) in literature.
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Social conditions.
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Social conditions -- Fiction
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| Subject |
Great Britain.
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721-1771
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Brack, O. M
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Chilton, Leslie A.
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| ISBN |
9780820337326 |
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0820337323 |
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9780191861758 |
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0191861758 |
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1282948148 |
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9781282948143 |
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9786612948145 |
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6612948140 |
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