Back in London, Smollett set about a commitment to translate Don Quixote from the Spanish of Miguel de Cervantes, and this translation was published in 1755. Smollett was already suffering from tuberculosis. Early in 1756 he became editor of The Critical Review, a Tory and church paper, at ...
This article focuses on Tobias George Smollet, a British novelist during the eighteenth century, who got involved with the picaresque tradition. His works were found to be influenced by Spanish picaresque as he translated both "Don Quixote" and the two books written by French novelist Alain Ren...
(1753), are tough, coarse, episodic adventure stories, exposing a crude and brutal society. In 1755, Smollett translated Cervantes'sDon Quixoteinto English. His novelSir Lancelot Greaves(1760–62), which is based onDon Quixote,is considered his weakest work. Smollett achieved his greatest success...
Basker. Tobias Smollett: Critic and Journalist. Newark, N.J.: University of Delaware Press, 1988. 358pp. US$39.50. James G. Basker argues for cessation of twentieth-century attacks upon Smollett 's Critical Review and recognition of the pre-eminence of Smollett as the precursor of modem ...
The humanistic approach which I am using here to explore the theme of water in the novels of Smollett aims at bringing out Smollett's own humanistic views ... EB Bardell - 《Pharmacy in History》 被引量: 0发表: 1985年 The use of Quixote figures and allusions to Don Quixote in the nove...
TobiasGeorgeSmollettBorn(1721-03-19)19March1721Renton,ScotlandDied17September1771(1771-09-17)(aged50)ItalyOccupationAuthor,poet,surgeonN..
Tobias Smollett was a Scottish satirical novelist, best known for his picaresque novels The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748) and The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751) and his epistolary novel The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771). Smollett cam