The Author, the Book & the ReaderGreenwich Exchange, 1991 - 220 pages This collection of essays analyses the effects of changing technology and the attendant commercial pressures on literary styles and subject matter. Authors covered include Charles Dickens, Tobias George Smollett, Mark Twain, Dr Johnson and John le Carre. |
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Robert Giddings. III Tobias Smollett and the West Indian Connection Tobias Smollett came to London seeking literary fame and fortune . He too carried a drama which no one ... Smollett , whose Tobias Smollett and the West Indian Connection.
Robert Giddings. III Tobias Smollett and the West Indian Connection Tobias Smollett came to London seeking literary fame and fortune . He too carried a drama which no one ... Smollett , whose Tobias Smollett and the West Indian Connection.
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... Smollett was unforgiving , but he worked his resentments up into the stuff of comic fiction , and these episodes feature in the pages of Roderick Random . Relations between the two were not good for some time , but by 1756 Smollett had ...
... Smollett was unforgiving , but he worked his resentments up into the stuff of comic fiction , and these episodes feature in the pages of Roderick Random . Relations between the two were not good for some time , but by 1756 Smollett had ...
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... Smollett's play . Smollett bided his time . Then when Lyttleton's wife died and the stricken lord wrote his seemingly sincere Monody 1747 Smollett responded with his vicious squib Burlesque Ode which purported to lament the death of a ...
... Smollett's play . Smollett bided his time . Then when Lyttleton's wife died and the stricken lord wrote his seemingly sincere Monody 1747 Smollett responded with his vicious squib Burlesque Ode which purported to lament the death of a ...
Contents
Samuel Johnson as Parliamentary | 29 |
Tobias Smollett and the West Indian | 48 |
Edgar Allan Poe meets Inspector Morse | 72 |
Copyright | |
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