Tobias Smollett in the enlightenment : travels through France, Italy, and Scotland /

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Author / Creator:Jones, Richard J., 1972-
Imprint:Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press, ©2011.
Description:1 online resource (x, 221 pages).
Language:English
Series:Transits
Transits (Bucknell University)
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11403697
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Other authors / contributors:Bucknell University Press.
ISBN:9781611480498
1611480493
9781611480481
128327325X
9781283273251
9786613273253
6613273252
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
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Summary:Tobias Smollett (1721-71) is best known today as a novelist. 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 enc.
Other form:Print version: Jones, Richard J., 1972- Tobias Smollett in the enlightenment. Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press, ©2011