The Adventures of Roderick Random - Brossura

Smollett, Tobias George

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ISBN 10: 0820346039 ISBN 13: 9780820346038

Casa editrice: Univ of Georgia Pr, 2014

Riassunto

<p>This is the definitive scholarly edition of Tobias Smollett&rsquo;s first novel, widely regarded as one of his two masterpieces, the other being <i>The Expedition of Humphry Clinker</i>. <i>Roderick Random</i> was also, in its time, the chief rival to Henry Fielding&rsquo;s comic novel <i>Tom Jones</i>.</p><p>Surging with verbal, sexual, and martial energy,<i> The Adventures of Roderick Random</i> opens a window on life, love, and war in the eighteenth century. The hero battles his way from poverty and neglect to make his mark as a doctor, writer, fighter, and lover. His adventures take us across the world, from England and France to the Caribbean, Africa, and Latin America. One of the first truly global novels, it casts light on nearly every aspect of its time&mdash;imperialism, gender relations, slavery, urban life, colonial warfare, commerce, politics, the professions, high society, and the Hogarthian underworld.</p><p>Complete with illustrations and comprehensive annotations, this is the first edition to include Smollett&rsquo;s long-forgotten antiwar pamphlet, <i>An Account of the Expedition against Carthagene in the West Indies</i>, which was drawn from his own war experience and on which key sections of the novel are based. The editors also provide a detailed biographical and historical introduction, based on the most recent scholarship, mapping the novel&rsquo;s enormous impact in its own time and its influence on the history of litera&shy;ture over the centuries since.</p>

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Informazioni sull?autore

James G. Basker is the Richard Gilder Professor of Literary History at Barnard College. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Tobias Smollett: Critic and Journalist and Amazing Grace: An Anthology of Poems about Slavery, 1660–1810. The late Paul-Gabriel Boucé, professor at the University of Paris, wrote and edited many books, including Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Nicole A. Seary is a researcher at the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Univ of Georgia Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0820346039
• ISBN 13: 9780820346038
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 620
• Redattore: Brack O. M. Jr.
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile