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Tobias George Smollett (bapt. 19 March 1721 – 17 September 1771) was a Scottish writer and surgeon. He was best known for writing picaresque novels such as The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748), The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751) and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771), [2] which influenced later generations of British ...
Tobias Smollett was a Scottish satirical novelist, best known for his picaresque novels The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748) and The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751) and his epistolary novel The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771). Smollett came of a family of lawyers and soldiers, Whig.
Nov 27, 2013 · The prodigious achievements of Tobias Smollett (b. 1721–d. 1771), novelist, historian, journalist, editor, compiler, and translator, involve thousands of printed pages and span many varied literary endeavors.
May 11, 2018 · Smollett is perhaps best known as the author of the hugely successful picaresque novel Roderick Random (1747), as an editor of the monthly magazine The Critical Review, and the patriotic periodical The Briton (1762 – 1763), and the xenophobic travel book Travels through France and Italy (1766), which details his own experiences of traveling in E...
The title of this chapter is a dual reference to Robert Burton (1577–1640) and Samuel Johnson (1709–84). The former, writing in search of better health for himself and his readers, dispenses the phrase “Be not solitary, be not idle” as the ultimate takeaway of his bible-length volume on melancholy.
Tobias George Smollett (March 16, 1721 – September 17, 1771) was a Scottish author, poet, and novelist, best known for his picaresque novels, such as Roderick Random and Peregrine Pickle that generally followed the comedic misadventures of well-meaning but unscrupulous vagabonds through the underbelly of English social life.
Tobias Smollett, (baptized March 19, 1721, Cardross, Dumbartonshire, Scot.—died Sept. 17, 1771, near Livorno, Tuscany), Scottish satirical novelist. Throughout his life Smollett combined the roles of medical man and writer.
Jan 1, 2024 · Smollett after 300 years offers a collection of essays on one of the great literary figures of the eighteenth century: the Scottish writer, Tobias Smollett (1721–1771).
Smollett after 300 years offers a collection of essays on one of the great literary figures of the eighteenth century: the Scottish writer, Tobias Smollett (1721–1771). Drawing together the work of an international group of scholars, with a variety of critical approaches, the book examines aspects of Smollett’s life, writing and reputation ...
Tobias George Smollett (registered as Smollet) was baptised on 19 March 1721, the son of Archibald Smollet and Barbara Cunningham of Dalquhourn. The entry in the Old Parish Register (OPR)...
