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Genre/Form: | Fiction Romans, nouvelles, etc |
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Material Type: | Fiction, Government publication, State or province government publication |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
T Smollett; Robert Folkenflik; Barbara Laning Fitzpatrick |
ISBN: | 9780820346083 082034608X |
OCLC Number: | 841911284 |
Notes: | Previously published in 1762 under title: The adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves. |
Description: | liv, 314 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
Other Titles: | Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves |
Responsibility: | Tobias Smollett ; introduction and notes by Robert Folkenflik ; the text edited by Barbara Laning Fitzpatrick. |
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Publisher Synopsis
Folkenflik's intoduction does a skillful job of setting the novel in its formal, biographical and historical contexts, and his judicious notes are a mine of information on the issues and antagonisms that animate the text.|The republication of these marginal works in definitive editions, and the convincing reintegration of the translations into Smollet's corpus, will enable Smollett scholars to reassess their significance. And for that reason alone the texts are valuable. But the editions are also relevant to a broader number of current critical conversations not least because of their superb apparatus. . . .The importance of [this] edition to Smollett studies cannot be overstated. Read more...

