Tobias Smollett in the Enlightenment Travels through France, Italy, and Scotland
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
22.09.2011
Verlag
Globe Pequot Publishing Group IncSeitenzahl
232
Maße (L/B/H)
23.9/16.2/1.2 cm
Gewicht
487 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-61148-048-1
Tobias Smollett (1721-1771) is best known today as a novelist, but 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 encyclopedia" in the tradition of Voltaire. Jones divides his study into sections on medicine, fine art, the theater and history. In doing so, he offers a productive juxtaposition of authors, texts and contexts, presenting Smollett as a writer whose Scottish (and particularly Glaswegian) identity informed his involvement in a wider European Enlightenment.
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