Richard J. Jones

Tobias Smollett in the Enlightenment (eBook, PDF)

Travels through France, Italy, and Scotland

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Tobias Smollett (1721-71) is best known today as a novelist whereas in the eighteenth century he was primarily regarded as a historian and critic. In Tobias Smollett in the Enlightenment, 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. Taking as his 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), Jones argues that Smollett's account should be read as a "pocket encyclopedia" in the tradition of Voltaire, rather than as a conventional "travel narrative." Discussing Smollett's engagement with medicine, fine art, the theater and history, Jones offers a productive juxtaposition of authors, texts and contexts, presenting Smollett as a writer whose Scottish (and particularly Glaswegian) identity informed his involvement in a wider European Enlightenment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216356660
• Artikelnr.: 75142109

Autorenporträt

Richard J. Jones is an editor and associate lecturer with the Open University in the UK. He is interested in the culture of the long eighteenth century and, in particular, questions about genre, form, and the relationship of philosophy and literature.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Acknowledgments
2 Abbreviations
3 Introduction
4 i. Smollett and the Enlightenment in Glasgow
5 ii. Travels through France and Italy
6 iii. Attribution
7 Chapter One: A Physical Gentleman
8 i. Smollett and Medicine
9 ii. Water
10 iii. Natural History
11 Chapter Two: A Good Critic
12 i. Smollett and the Fine Arts
13 ii. Francis Hutcheson and Thomas Reid
14 iii. Adam Smith
15 Chapter Three: A Theatrical Divine
16 i. Smollett and the Theatre
17 ii. Novels and Performances
18 iii. Carnival
19 Chapter Four: A Friend of Virtue
20 i. Smollett and History
21 ii. David Hume and the Stuarts
22 iii. George III
23 Conclusion
24 Bibliography