The Adventures of Roderick Random

T. Smollett

ISBN 10: 0820321656 / ISBN 13: 9780820321653

Editore: University of Georgia Press, 2012

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This hardback clothbound book is in good condition. The dust jacket is slightly faded on the front page edge and the two bottom inside corners of the book are very slightly bent.This is the definitive scholarly edition of Tobias Smollett's first novel, widely regarded as one of his two masterpieces, the other being The Expedition of Humphry Clinker. Roderick Random was also, in its time, the chief rival to Henry Fielding's comic novel Tom Jones.Surging with verbal, sexual, and martial energy, The Adventures of Roderick Random 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-imperialism, gender relations, slavery, urban life, colonial warfare, commerce, politics, the professions, high society, and the Hogarthian underworld. Complete with illustrations and comprehensive annotations, this is the first edition to include Smollett's long-forgotten antiwar pamphlet, An Account of the Expedition against Carthagene in the West Indies, 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's enormous impact in its own time and its influence on the history of litera-ture over the centuries since. Copyright © University of Georgia Press.

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• Titolo: The Adventures of Roderick Random
• Editore: University of Georgia Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0820321656
• ISBN 13: 9780820321653
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: Good

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<p>This is the definitive scholarly edition of Tobias Smollett’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’s comic novel <i>Tom Jones</i>.<br><br>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—imperialism, gender relations, slavery, urban life, colonial warfare, commerce, politics, the professions, high society, and the Hogarthian underworld.<br><br>Complete with illustrations and comprehensive annotations, this is the first edition to include Smollett’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’s enormous impact in its own time and its influence on the history of litera­ture over the centuries since.</p>

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<b>Tobias Smollett (Author) </b><br> TOBIAS SMOLLETT (1721&;1771) was a novelist, playwright, journalist, historian, travel writer, critic, translator, editor, and compiler&;an eighteenth-century man of letters in the fullest sense of the phrase.<br><br><b>O M Brack Jr. (Editor) </b><br> O M BRACK, JR., a professor of English literature emeritus at Arizona State University, is coauthor of <i>Samuel Johnson's Early Biographers</i> and coeditor of <i>The Early Biographies of Samuel Johnson</i>. He has edited volumes of the <i>Works of Samuel Johnson</i> published by Yale and is textual editor for the Georgia series the Works of Tobias Smollett. Brack is the curator of the 2009 Johnson tercentenary exhibition at the Huntington Library.<br><br><b>Alexander Pettit (Editor) </b><br> ALEXANDER PETTIT is an associate professor of English at the University of North Texas. He is also the general editor of three series: The Works of Tobias Smollett (Georgia), British Ideas and Issues, 1660-1820, and Selected Works of Eliza Haywood.<br><br>