The Miscellaneous Writings of Tobias Smollett

ISBN-13: 9781848935037 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 489 str.

Jr. O. M. Brack;Leslie A. Chilton;Walter H. Keithly

Opis

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."

Spis treści

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);

O autorze

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