Tobias Smollett / edited by Lionel Kelly.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kelly, Lionel.

Series:

Critical heritage series.

The critical heritage series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721-1771--Criticism and interpretation.

Smollett, T.

Authors, Scottish.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (398 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1987.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Annotation The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the work themselves.

Contents:

Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; General Editor's Preface; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I. BEGINNINGS; RODERICK RANDOM, 1748; II. PEREGRINE PICKLE AND THE MEMOIRS OF A LADY OF QUALITY; III. SMOLLETT, FIELDING AND THE 'PAPER WAR'; IV. FERDINAND COUNT FATHOM; V. TRANSLATOR, CRITIC AND HISTORIAN 1754-60; VI. SIR LAUNCELOT GREAVES, 1760-61; VII. TRAVELS THROUGH FRANCE AND ITALY AND THE ADVENTURES OF AN ATOM; VIII. THE EXPEDITION OF HUMPHRY CLINKER; IX. PLAYS AND POEMS (1777) AND WORKS; X. SCOTT, THE ROMANTICS AND DICKENS; NOTES; Note on the Text

1. Alexander Carlyle on SmollettNOTES; 2. Tobias Smollett, Preface to The Adventures of Roderick Random; 3. Catherine Talbot, letter; 4. The Earl of Orrery on Roderick Random; 5. 'An Oxford Scholar' on Roderick Random; 6. The Gentleman's Magazine; 7. [John Cleland], review of The Regicide; 8. Samuel Johnson in The Rambler; NOTE; 9. Samuel Richardson, letter; 10. Samuel Richardson, letter; 11. [Francis Coventry], from An Essay on the New Species of Writing; 12. Unsigned review of Hill's Lady Frail; 13. Unsigned review of Peregrine Pickle; NOTE; 14. Unsigned review of Peregrine Pickle

15. Thomas Gray, a letter to Horace Walpole on Peregrine Pickle16. [Dr John Hill], from A Parallel between the Characters of Lady Frail, and the Lady of Quality in Pergrine Pickle; NOTE; 17. Anonymous verses on Lady Vane; 18. Horace Walpole on Lady Vane; 19. Dr John Hill on Lady Vane and Smollett; 20. [Matthew Maty], review of Peregrine Pickle; NOTE; 21. Lady Henrietta Luxborough, letters; 22. Anonymous verses on Lady Vane; 23. Elizabeth Montague on Peregrine Pickle; 24. [Henry Fielding] in The Covent-Garden Journal; 25. [Tobias Smollett], Habbakkuk Hilding's Faithful Narrative; NOTE

26. [Bonnell Thornton], from Have at You All: or The Drury-Lane Journal27. [Bonnell Thornton], from Have at You All: or the Drury-Lane Journal; NOTE; 28. [William Kenrick], from Fun: a Parodi-tragi-comical Satire; 29. Henry Fielding on authorial propriety; 30. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, letter; NOTE; 31. Mary Granville Delany, letter; 32. Smollett's Dedication to Ferdinand Count Fathom; NOTE; 33. Unsigned review of Ferdinand Count Fathom; 34. Mary Granville Delany, letters; 35. A French bookseller's view of Peregrine Pickle

36. Élie Catherine Fréron on a French translation of Peregrine Pickle37. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, letter; 38. Mrs Laetitia Pilkington on Roderick Random; 39. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, letter; NOTE; 40. Unsigned review of Smollett's translation of Don Quixote; NOTES; 41. Gotthold Lessing on a German translation of Roderick Random; 42. Anonymous, 'Remarks on Roderick Random'; NOTES; 43. Unsigned review of The Reprisal; 44. Unsigned review of The Reprisal; 45. [Oliver Goldsmith] on the Complete History; 46. Dr John Shebbeare on Smollett; NOTE

47. [Owen Ruffhead], review of Smollett's Complete History, vol. IV

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

1-134-78284-5

1-55546-282-0

1-134-78285-3

1-280-03136-0

9786610031368

0-203-19751-8

9780203197516

OCLC:

275199730