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The adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom

Tobias Smollett ; introduction and notes by Jerry C. Beasley ; the text edited by O M Brack, Jr

(The works of Tobias Smollett)

University of Georgia Press, c1988

  • : [hard]

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注記

Bibliography: p. [463]-464

Includes index

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

: [hard] ISBN 9780820310107

内容説明

The first novel by a major English writer that is devoted to a thoroughgoing portrait of villainy, The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom 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. First published in 1753, Ferdinand Count Fathom 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, Ferdinand Count Fathom may now be read, understood, and appreciated against the literary and historical background of the eighteenth-century world.
巻冊次

ISBN 9780820314358

内容説明

The hero of "Ferdinand Count Fathom" (1753) is a monster of treachery and fraud. Fate and coincidence play a large part in his picaresque progress through England and Europe, and much of the narrative is written in a mock-heroic style. This critical study explains the literary and historical background of the 18th-century world in which the book was written.

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA04536039
  • ISBN
    • 9780820310107
    • 0820314358
  • LCCN
    87026368
  • 出版国コード
    us
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Athens, Ga.
  • ページ数/冊数
    xlii, 479 p.
  • 大きさ
    24 cm
  • 分類
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