The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves (Works of Tobias Smollett) - Hardcover

Tobias Smollett

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0820323071 ISBN 13: 9780820323077

Publisher: University of Georgia Press, 2002

Synopsis

This work brings to life Tobias Smollett's fourth novel, ""The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves"". This version includes more accurate text and critical information. It also includes an examination of ""Sir Launcelot Greaves"", the first illustrated serial novel, in relation to the engravings by Anthony Walker. The most attractive of his heroes, Sir Launcelot is virtuous and strange, and he is surrounded by a Smollettian menagerie whose various jargons are part of this novel's linguistic virtuosity and satire. Sir Launcelot's character is an English naturalization of Quixote. Although Sir Launcelot is not the object of Smollett's satire, an idealistic madness is central to both characters. In Smollett's work, the theme of madness is integral to the relationship between self and society as the work ponders both the constitution of madness and the alternatives to revenge.

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Review:

"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."--Thomas Keymer, "Times Literary Supplement"

"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."--Sharon Alkner, "Eighteenth Century Scotland"

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.--Thomas Keymer ""Times Literary Supplement" "

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.--Sharon Alkner ""Eighteenth Century Scotland" "

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.

--Thomas Keymer "Times Literary Supplement "

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.

--Sharon Alkner "Eighteenth Century Scotland "

About the Author:

Robert Folkenflik is a professor of English and comparative literature at the University of California, Irvine. He served as general editor of the series Irvine Studies in the Humanities. His books include Samuel Johnson, Biographer and The English Hero, 1660-1800. Barbara Laning Fitzpatrick is a professor of English at the University of New Orleans. She has published articles in The Library, Analytical and Enumerative Bibliography, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, and Studies in Newspaper and Periodical History.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0820323071
• ISBN 13: 9780820323077
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 314