miniatura|Tobias Smollett sobre el Scott Monument. Tobias George Smollett (1721 – 1771) va ser un escriptor i poeta escocès. Es va donar a conèixer amb novel·les picaresques com The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748) i The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751), les quals va influenciar Charles Dickens.
Smollett va rebre educació com a cirurgià a la Universitat de Glasgow Durant 1739 marxà a Londres a cercar fortuna com a dramaturg. Com a cirurgià s'enrolà a un vaixell i arribà a Jamaica,on hi residí uns anys. Durant 1742 exercí com cirurgià a la captura de Cartagena. George Orwell el va qualificar com el millor novel·lista d'Escòcia.
Bibliografia 1746: Advice (poetry)Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, 1747: Reproof: A satire, a sequel to Advice (poetry) 1748: Translator, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, published anonymously (dated, incorrectly, "1749"), translated from the original L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane by Alain-René Le Sage 1748: The Adventures of Roderick Random, published anonymously 1749: The Regicide; or, James the First, of Scotland: A tragedy (play) 1751: The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, published anonymously 1753: The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom 1755: Translator, The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote, translated from the original Spanish of Cervantes. Vol. 1: . Vol. 2: . 1756: A Compendium of Authentic and Entertaining Voyages, published anonymously; nonfiction 1756: Editor and one of the writers, The Critical Review; or, Annals of Literature, a periodical published semi-annually from this year until 1790 1757–1758: A Complete History of England by David Hume, in four volumes, with Smollett adding his own Continuation of the History of England, published from 1760–1765, as an additional volume; nonfiction 1757: The Reprisal; or, The Tars of Old England: A comedy, anonymously published; a play performed on 22 January 1760: The British Magazine, a periodical published in eight volumes; Volumes 1 and 2 include the first publication of Launcelot Greaves (see below) 1761–1765: The Works of Voltaire, an English translation of Voltaire in thirty-five volumes, which Smollett edited with Thomas FrancklinKenneth Simpson, Smollett, Tobias George (1721–1771), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, setembre 2004; online edn, gener 2008, consultat el 13 desembre 2009 1762: The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves, first edition as a book; originally serialised in The British Magazine from gener 1760 to desembre 1761 (see above) 1766: Travels through France and Italy, nonfiction 1768–1769: The Present State of all Nations, published in eight volumes; nonfiction 1769: The History and Adventures of an Atom 1771: The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
Referències
Lewis, Jeremy (Cape, 2003) Tobias Smollett George Rousseau (1982). Tobias Smollett: Essays of Two Decades (Edinburgh: T&T Clark). George Rousseau (2004). Nervous Acts: Essays on Literature, Culture and Sensibility. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. (Paperback) (Hardcover)
Enllaços externs
Tobias Smollett at the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive (ECPA)
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