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The Adventures of Roderick Random

The Adventures of Roderick Random

by Tobias SmollettPaul-Gabriel Bouce James G. Basker and others
Paperback
Publication Date: 15/01/2014

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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 literature over the centuries since.
ISBN:
9780820346038
9780820346038
Category:
Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
15-01-2014
Language:
English
Publisher:
University of Georgia Press
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
680
Dimensions (mm):
229x152x38mm
Weight:
0kg
Tobias Smollett

Tobias Smollett (1721 - 71) was a Scottish poet and novelist famed for his picaresque novels The Adventures of Roderick Random, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker.

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