The miscellaneous writings of Tobias Smollett
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The miscellaneous writings of Tobias Smollett
（The Pickering masters）
Pickering & Chatto, 2015
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Tobias Smollett (1721-71) is best known as a novelist; however this prolific and talented author was also a notable historian, literary critic, translator, medical writer and satirist. This volume will help us to reassess our understanding of Smollett by presenting some of his most significant miscellaneous writings in a new critical edition.
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1 Thomsonus Redivivus and Don Ricardo Honeywater Vindicated
- Chapter 2 A Faithful Narrative of the Base and Inhuman Arts That were Lately Practised Upon the Brain of Habbakkuk Hilding (1752)
- Chapter 3 An Essay on the External Use of Water (1752)
- Chapter 4 Micromegas: A Comic Romance, Being a Severe Satire Upon the Philosophy, Ignorance, and Self-Conceit of Mankind, Together with a Detail of the Crusades, and a New Plan for the History of the Human Mind (1752)
- Chapter 5 Advertisement to William Smellie's a Collection of Preternatural Cases and Observations in Midwifery (1764)
- Chapter 6 Smollett as Editor and Literary Reviewer
- Chapter 7 The Present State of All Nations (1768-9)
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