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Tobias Smollett (1721–1771)

Auteur de The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

127+ oeuvres 3,577 utilisateurs 56 critiques 12 Favoris

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Smollett, the only major eighteenth-century English novelist whose work can seriously be called picaresque, came to the writing of novels with a strong sense of Scottish national pride (an alienating element in the London of the 1750s and 1760s), a Tory feeling for a lost order, horrifying afficher plus experiences as a physician, and a fierce determination to make his way in the literary world. Prolific in a variety of literary forms, he was particularly successful as a popular historian, magazine editor, translator of Cervantes (see Vol. 2), and author of novels about adventurous, unscrupulous, poor young men. His work is marked by vigorous journalistic descriptions of contemporary horrors, such as shipboard amputations or the filthy curative waters of Bath; by a flair for racy narrative often built on violence and sentiment, and for comedy that often relies on practical jokes and puns; and by a great gift for creating comic caricatures. His peppery Travels through France and Italy (1766) was something of a spur to Laurence Sterne's Sentimental Journey, in which Smollett is referred to as Dr. Smelfungus, who "set out with the spleen and jaundice, and every object he passed by was discolored or distorted---He wrote an account of them, but 'twas nothing but the account of his miserable feelings." Smollett's most notable novels are Roderick Random (1748), Peregrine Pickle Pickle (1751), Ferdinand Count Fathom (1753), Sir Launcelot Greaves (1762), which set a precedent by first being serialized in his British Magazine (January 1760--December 1761), and especially The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker (1771), a relatively mellow work that follows the travels of Matthew Bramble, an excitable Welshman, from his home through chaotic England to idyllic Loch Lomond and back. Bramble himself finds what Smollett had irrecoverably lost---his health---as well as a son from his youth. Smollett died in 1771, the year of the novel's appearance, in Leghorn, Italy, and is buried in the English cemetery there. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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(eng) Smelfungus is a name given by Laurence Sterne to Tobias Smollett as author of a volume of Travels through France and Italy, for the snarling abuse he heaps on the institutions and customs of the countries he visited. In the 19th century it was adopted by Thomas Carlyle as a pen-name when he had any seriously severe criticisms to offer on things, particularly those that have gone or are going to the bad. Patrick Proctor Alexander also used the name in his book Mill and Carlyle, which contrasted Carlyle's views with those of John Stuart Mill. Proctor's Occasional Discourse on Sauertieg by Smelfungus attacks Carlyle's more brutal ideas.

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Œuvres de Tobias Smollett

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771) 1,523 exemplaires
Roderick Random (1748) 717 exemplaires
Travels through France and Italy (1766) 198 exemplaires
La Carrière d'un vaurien (1753) 140 exemplaires
The Works of Tobias Smollett (1850) 20 exemplaires
The Letters of Tobias Smollett (1970) 6 exemplaires
Roderick Random 1 exemplaire
The Life of Cervantes 1 exemplaire
The tears of Scotland 1 exemplaire
Peregryn Pickle. T. 2 1 exemplaire
S&S Little Classics 1 exemplaire
Peregrine Pickle 1 exemplaire
Peregryn Pickle. T. 1 1 exemplaire
Aventurier, L' 1 exemplaire

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Nom légal
Smollett, Tobias George
Autres noms
Smelfungus
Date de naissance
1721-03-19
Date de décès
1771-09-17
Lieu de sépulture
Livorno, Tuscany, Italy (Leghorn)
Sexe
male
Nationalité
UK
Lieu de naissance
Dalquhurn, Dunbartonshire, Scotland, Great Britain
Lieu du décès
Livorno, Tuscany
Lieux de résidence
Renton, Dunbartonshire, Scotland, Great Britain
Glasgow, Scotland, Great Britain
London, England, Great Britain
Bath, Somerset, England, Great Britain
Livorno, Tuscany (now Italy ∙ death)
Cardross, Dumbartonshire, Scotland, Great Britain (tout afficher 7)
Chelsea, London, England, Great Britain
Études
University of Glasgow
University of Aberdeen
apprenticed to a surgeon in Glasgow, Scotland
Professions
naval surgeon
dramatist
novelist
editor
translator
poet (tout afficher 8)
satirist
historian
Notice de désambigüisation
Smelfungus is a name given by Laurence Sterne to Tobias Smollett as author of a volume of Travels through France and Italy, for the snarling abuse he heaps on the institutions and customs of the countries he visited.

In the 19th century it was adopted by Thomas Carlyle as a pen-name when he had any seriously severe criticisms to offer on things, particularly those that have gone or are going to the bad. Patrick Proctor Alexander also used the name in his book Mill and Carlyle, which contrasted Carlyle's views with those of John Stuart Mill. Proctor's Occasional Discourse on Sauertieg by Smelfungus attacks Carlyle's more brutal ideas.

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> Babelio : https://www.babelio.com/livres/Smollett-La-Carriere-dun-vaurien/385417

> On (re)découvre ici le pendant littéraire des peintures de son contemporain Hogarth, où l'immoralité et le manque de scrupules sont les traits principaux d'un roué plus vrai que nature. La biographie, brillamment contée, de Ferdiand, pseudo comte Fathom nous fais même oublier les situations souvent sordides dans lesquelles sont plongées les victimes de ce vil personnage qui n'a rien à envier aux vauriens du XXe siècle.
Danieljean (Babelio)
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Membres
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ISBN
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