university of georgia press jan 2014 (10 results)

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This new edition brings to life Tobias Smollett's fourth novel, first published in 1760. No annotated edition of the work existed before the second half of the twentieth century, and this comprehensive edition by Folkenflik and Fitzpatrick features more accurate text as well as scrupulous textual and critical information.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - In the novel, a London haberdasher relates extraordinary tales of ancient Japan as dictated to him by an omniscient atom that has lived within the bodies of great figures of state. This edition is the first to appear since 1926 and provides a carefully prepared text, historical annotations, and an accurate key to personages and places.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - First published in France in 1707 as Le Diable boiteux, Alain René Le Sage's novel relates the picaresque wanderings of Asmodeus, a refined, likable but decrepit devil, and Zambullo, his newfound mortal companion. Also included is a guide to the now-exotic pharmaceuticals and remedies one encounters in the novel.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The first critical edition of Smollett's 1776 translation of Bishop Fénelon's 1699 'Mirror of Princes,' one of the most popular and revered works of the eighteenth century, written especially for Duc de Burgogne, heir presumptive to Louis XIV, and meant to teach him the proper way to rule.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - First published in 1753, this experimental work explores the relations between history and fiction while introducing episodes of Gothic melodrama. Filled with satiric thrusts at the legal, medical, and military establishments of mid-eighteenth-century Europe, the novel reveals Smollett's capacities as a commentator on contemporary life.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The poems, plays, and political writings in this volume are essential to an understanding of Smollett and the literary and social currents of eighteenth-century England. In his introductions to the sections, Gassman traces the history of their publication and reception, and provides extensive explanations of historical and literary allusions.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This is the definitive scholarly edition of Smollett's first novel, widely regarded as a masterpiece and a 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.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Tobias Smollett, in the preface to his first novel, acknowledges the influence of Alain René Le Sage's L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane on his work. Smollett's translation of Gil Blas appeared nine months after the publication of Roderick Random. This chronicle of a merry, philosophical young man presents special problems for a translator. Smollett, without always adhering to the literal expression of the novel's language, is true to its style, spirit, and ideas.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This authoritative textual edition presents Smollett's translation of Cervantes's Don Quixote in the form most faithful to Smollett's own intentions. It includes Francis Hayman's twenty-eight illustrations engraved for the original edition, Smollett's explanatory notes, and his prefatory 'Life of Cervantes.'.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - From 1798 to 1801, during the Haitian Revolution, President John Adams and Toussaint Louverture, forged diplomatic relations that empowered white Americans to embrace freedom and independence for people of color in Saint-Domingue, helping to bring forth a new nation: Haiti. This is the first book on the Adams-Louverture alliance.