Travels Through France and Italy by Tobias Smollett

Travels Through France and Italy by Tobias Smollett

Many pens have been burnished this year of grace for the purpose of celebrating with befitting honour the second centenary of the birth of Henry Fielding; but it is more than doubtful if, when the right date occurs in March 1921, anything like the same alacrity will be shown to commemorate one who was for many years, and by such judges as Scott, Hazlitt, and Charles Dickens, considered Fielding's complement and absolute co-equal (to say the least) in literary achievement. Smollett's fame, indeed, seems to have fallen upon an unprosperous curve. The coarseness of his fortunate rival is condoned, while his is condemned without appeal. Smollett's value is assessed without discrimination at that of his least worthy productions, and the historical value of his work as a prime modeller of all kinds of new literary material is overlooked. Consider for a moment as not wholly unworthy of attention his mere versatility as a man of letters.

At Barnard College, Basker is the Richard Gilder Professor of Literary History. Tobias Smollett: Critic and Journalist and Amazing Grace: An Anthology of Poetry on Slavery, 1660-1810 are among the books he has written or edited. Many volumes, including Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century Britain, were written and published by the late Paul-Gabriel Bouce, a professor at the University of Paris. Seary works at the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History as a researcher.

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ISBN 13	9780192815699
ISBN 10	0192815695
Title	Travels Through France and Italy
Author	Tobias Smollett
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	1981-11-01
Number of pages	590
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