The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves, Smollett Tobias George
Автор: Smollett Tobias George Название: The Works of Tobias Smollett: Roderick Random, 1895-1900... ISBN: 1249601894 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781249601890 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 3690.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Smollett Tobias George Название: Poems, Plays, and "The Briton " ISBN: 0820346098 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820346090 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 5960.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: <p>The poems, plays, and political writings included in this volume are essential to an understanding of Tobias Smollett and the literary and social currents of eighteenth-century England. In introductions to the separate sections of the volume, Byron Gassman identifies the circumstances that prompted Smollett to undertake these writings, traces the history of their publication and reception, and provides extensive explanations of historical and literary allusions.</p><p>The poems in the volume represent Smollett's entire achievement as a poet. Among the shorter poems are "A New Song," his first printed work; "The Tears of Scotland," an early expression of his defiant spirit; and the popular "Ode to Independence," written during the last decade of his life. Two longer works, "Advice" (1746) and its sequel, "Reproof" (1747), are satires written in Popean heroic couplets; they mark the beginnings of Smollett's attacks on theater managers, corrupt politicians, iniquitous military leaders, and other well-known personalities of the day. An appendix to this volume includes five additional poems assigned but not definitely attributed to Smollett. </p><p><i>The Reprisal; or The Tars of Old England</i> and <i>The Regicide</i> are the only extant plays by Smollett. <i>The Regicide</i>, written when the author was only eighteen or nineteen, dramatizes the story of the murder of James I of Scotland. <i>The Reprisal</i>, a patriotic comedy performed as an afterpiece at the Theatre Royal, was a moderate theatrical success.</p><p>Smollett's political writings for <i>The Briton</i>, a weekly journal he established in 1762 for defending the policies of the Earl of Bute, mark a particularly painful period in the author's life. A paper war erupted with the first number, and Smollett and Bute became the objects of scathing counterattacks, particularly in the writings of John Wilkes. This volume brings together for the first time all issues of <i>The Briton</i> and also includes a key identifying the weekly's numerous elliptical references to persons and places.</p>
Автор: Smollett Tobias George Название: The History and Adventures of an Atom ISBN: 0820346063 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820346069 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 5267.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: <p>In <i>The History and Adventures of an Atom</i>, a London haberdasher relates extraordinary tales of ancient Japan as dictated to him by an omniscient atom that has lived within the bodies of great figures of state. Intended “for the instruction of British ministers,” the work is a savage allegory of England during the Seven Years’ War (1756-1763), draping kings and politicians, domestic and foreign affairs in an intricately detailed, endlessly allusive veil of satire.</p><p>Lacing his commentary with vitriol, Tobias Smollett gives fantastic expression in the Atom to many of the concerns voiced in his historical and political writings. He creates from the details of Japanese history an ingenious catalog of English places and personalities—from the up-start ruler “Taycho,” whose graspings for power resemble William Pitt’s, to a god of war called “Fatzman” who suggests the grotesquely obese Duke of Cumberland. Smollett also draws on the imagery of the period’s scurrilous political cartoons and injects into his satire a Rabelaisian humor that makes this work perhaps the most scatological in English literature.</p><p>Edited and introduced by Robert Adams Day, this edition of the Atom is the first to appear since 1926 and the first ever to provide a carefully prepared text, a full apparatus of historical annotations, and an accurate key to personages and places. Day establishes the authorship and the long-disputed work, placing it within the context of Smollett’s writings and opinions, his times and literary world.</p>
Автор: Smollett Tobias George Название: The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom ISBN: 0820346012 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820346014 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 5960.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: <p>The first novel by a major English writer that is devoted to a thoroughgoing portrait of villainy, <i>The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom</i> chronicles the life of an aberrant criminal character. Filled with striking satiric thrusts at the legal, medical, and military establishments of mid-eighteenth-century Europe and England, the novel reveals Tobias Smollett's capacities as a commentator on contemporary life.</p><p>First published in 1753, <i>Ferdinand Count Fathom</i> is an experimental work that explores the relations between history and fiction and introduces, for the first time in the English novel, episodes of Gothic melodrama. Too long neglected and never before available in a carefully prepared scholarly edition, <i>Ferdinand Count Fathom</i> may now be read, understood, and appreciated against the literary and historical background of the eighteenth-century world.</p>
