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Other authors / contributors: | Bucknell University Press.
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ISBN: | 9781611480498 1611480493 9781611480481 128327325X 9781283273251 9786613273253 6613273252
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
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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.
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Other form: | Print version: Jones, Richard J., 1972- Tobias Smollett in the enlightenment. Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press, ©2011
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