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...Francesco Cordasco SMOLLETT -4ND THE TRANSLATION OF THE GIL BLAS By FRANCESCOCORDASCO The GiZ Blus has enjoyed wide and steady popularity. Cordier, in his excellent bibliography,' indicates that, for the eighteenth and nine- teenth centuries alone...

.... WILLIAMHALLER Columbia University Tobias Smollett: Traveler-Novelist. By GEORGEM. KAHRL.Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1945. Pp. xxiv + 165. $2.75. It was not the intention of the author to write a coinplete biog- raphy of Smollett or to give a complete analysis of all his...

...- ence to the best scholarship in the field, and-what is so rare among scholars-a charmingly good-humored style. CLARKEMERY Indiana University Smollett Studies. By CLAUDEE. JONES. Berkeley: University of California Publications...

...Francesco Cordasco Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 SMOLLETT AND PETRONIUS By FRANCESCOCORDASCO Smollett’s place in the picaresque genre is not difficult to assign, and he himself has much to say about...

.... MELVIN RADER University of Washington The Later Cnrecr of Tobias Smollett. By LOUIS L. MARTZ.New Haven: Yale University Press, 1942. Pp. ix + 213. $3.00. Smollett has been one of the most neglected of British novelists, but since the middle 1920’s, beginning with Buck’s monograph...

... to Smollett. By JOHN SEKOKA.Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977. xv 4- 340 pp. S17.50. I‘his bizarre title wants some explaining, and John Sekora in his intro- duction deserves credit for his determination not to evade the questions such a subject will raise...

... Stan ford University Radical Doctor Smollett. By DONALDBRUCE. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965. 240 pp. $4.95. To produce an upto-date and authentic interpretation of Smollett, or of any other comparable eighteenth-century figure, is a most exacting under- taking. In the case...

...Francesco Cordasco Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 SMOLLETT AND THE TRANSLATION OF THE DON QUIXOTE By FRANCESCOCORDASCO In December, 1754, Smollett wrote to his good friend Dr. Macau- lay : “Nay, I am put to very...

... or at least to a United Europe, the cosmopolitan from Ferney is more alive than ever. , HENNINCFENCER New York City FORGED “SMOLLETT” LETTER To the Editor of Modern Language Quarterly Sir : A forgery forms...

...Edwin B. Knowles Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 A NOTE ON SMOLLETT’S DON QUIXOTE By EDWINB. KNOWLES In a recent article in Modern Language Qwzrterly Francesco Cor- dasco reviews the criticism of Smollett’s translation of Dun Quixute...

...- ence to the best scholarship in the field, and-what is so rare among scholars-a charmingly good-humored style. CLARKEMERY Indiana University Smollett Studies. By CLAUDEE. JONES. Berkeley: University of California Publications...

...Lawrence J. Zillman Grant Richards. New York: Oxford University Press, 1942. Pp. xxii + 495. $4.00. Copyright © 1944 by Duke University Press 1944 244 Reviews “The frequency with which serious historians, from [ Smollett’s] own time to the present, have drawn...

... of PrCvost: why mention the aneurism that killed Prkvost and speculate that its etiology was syphilitic when all is unknown? In the discussion of the major novelists (e.g., Smollett, Goldsmith, Richardson, etc.) some objections may be raised by their critics and bibliographers...

... bourgeois realism, Goldsmith’s benevolence, Smollett’s quixotic zeal (Launcelot Greaves), Sterne’s eccentricity (so mad, so wise, so gay, as Diderot called it), Miss Burney’s manners transcript, Bage’s utopian amelioratives, Miss Radcliffe’s Udolphian horrors, Godwin’s political polemicism...

.... WILLIAMHALLER Columbia University Tobias Smollett: Traveler-Novelist. By GEORGEM. KAHRL.Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1945. Pp. xxiv + 165. $2.75. It was not the intention of the author to write a coinplete biog- raphy of Smollett or to give a complete analysis of all his...

...Herschel M. Sikes W. P. Albrecht. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1965. 203 pp. $4.00. Copyright © 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 228 REVIEWS in support of his central theory that Smollett was a complete radical...

... temperament and humor. This given content is a necessary if not sufficient condition for Smollett’s best work. We might easily be tempted to further generalizations about the novelist as compiler. We learn something important about eighteenth- century fiction when we consider that Smollett...

..., “LAewisM~~nsfieltl Knapp”; John Butt, “Smollett’s Achieve- mcnt its a Novelist”; Donald Greene, “Smollett the Historian: A Reappraisal”; Ronald Paulson, “‘l‘lie Piigrimage antl the Family: Structures in tlie Novels of Fielding and Smollett”; G. S. Koiisseau, “Pineapples, Pregnancy...

... persons, and impress them more forcibly in their minds than volumes of severe precepts seriously delivered and dogmatically enforced.78 * Part I appeared in the June, 1958, issue of MLQ. 76 Smollett’s Peregrine Pickle is also an interesting precursor of The Ordeal of Richard Feverel...

.... W. B. CARNOCHAN Stan ford University Radical Doctor Smollett. By DONALDBRUCE. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965. 240 pp. $4.95. To produce an upto-date and authentic interpretation of Smollett, or of any other comparable eighteenth-century figure, is a most exacting under- taking...