“At the age of 17, I thought it one of the most fast-moving, boisterous & consistently entertaining novels I had ever read”
The late “Grub Street Irregular” Jeremy Lewis, on Tobias Smollett’s RODERICK RANDOM. Lewis published a biography of Smollett in 2003
5/5
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3601236/My-king-of-comedy.html
#Scottish #literature #Smollett #18thcentury #satire #humour
The Scenic Route to Humphry Clinker
Dr Ronnie Young shows how Smollett’s cantankerous Travels Through France and Italy – a “journal of gripes, snipes and stereotypes” – laid the groundwork for his finest novel
4/5
#Scottish #literature #Smollett #18thcentury #travelwriting #Italy #France
In 1763, Tobias Smollett embarked on a two-year trip round France and Italy. The great eighteenth-century novelist, historian, journalist and man of letters had good reason for quitting Britain. His support for the deeply unpopular prime ministership of the 3rd Earl of Bute (from 1762-1763) had left him the target of what he saw as […]
“In the 19th and 20th centuries, then, two varieties of intellectual Puritanism contrived to exclude Smollett from the literary canon”
—Prof Juliet Shields addresses Tobias Smollett’s exclusion from recent studies of the development of the 18th-century novel
3/5
https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/43514/chapter/364250240?login=false
#Scottish #literature #Smollett #18thcentury #novel #historyofthenovel
“a sharp, quirky, funny satirist, relishing the details of the lives of the underprivileged… bodily functions, compulsions, addictions & corruptions, are depicted in a social context of unstable movement”
—Prof Alan Riach compares Smollett to Irvine Welsh
2/5
https://www.thenational.scot/news/16095421.tobias-smollett---scotlands-original-irvine-welsh/
#Scottish #literature #Smollett #18thcentury #IrvineWelsh #Trainspotting
Tobias Smollett (1721–1771) was baptised #OTD, 19 March.
George Orwell thought him “Scotland’s best novelist”, “whose outstanding intellectual honesty may have been connected with the fact that he was not an Englishman” (TRIBUNE magazine, 22/9/1944)
1/5
In the Netflix documentary 'The Truth About Jussie Smollett?', the former 'Empire' actor opens up about how he felt extremely emasculated as news first spread that he'd been involved in an alleged hate crime, which he'd later be accused of orchestrating.
“At the age of 17, I thought it one of the most fast-moving, boisterous & consistently entertaining novels I had ever read”
The late “Grub Street Irregular” Jeremy Lewis on Tobias Smollett’s RODERICK RANDOM. Lewis published a biography of Smollett in 2003
5/5
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3601236/My-king-of-comedy.html
#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #Smollett #humour #satire
The Scenic Route to Humphry Clinker
Dr Ronnie Young shows how Smollett’s cantankerous Travels Through France and Italy – a “journal of gripes, snipes and stereotypes” – laid the groundwork for his finest novel
4/5
#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #Smollett #travelwriting #Italy
In 1763, Tobias Smollett embarked on a two-year trip round France and Italy. The great eighteenth-century novelist, historian, journalist and man of letters had good reason for quitting Britain. His support for the deeply unpopular prime ministership of the 3rd Earl of Bute (from 1762-1763) had left him the target of what he saw as […]
Tobias Smollett, Novelist: Brutish or British?
Prof Juliet Shields addresses Tobias Smollett’s exclusion from recent studies of the development of the 18th-century novel
3/5
https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/43514/chapter/364250240?login=false
Tobias Smollett (1721–1771) was baptised #OTD, 19 March.
George Orwell thought him “Scotland’s best novelist”, “whose outstanding intellectual honesty may have been connected with the fact that he was not an Englishman” (Tribune, 22/9/1944)
1/5
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