Tobias Smollett (1721–1771)
Auteur de The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
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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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- 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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- 127
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- Membres
- 3,577
- Popularité
- #7,087
- Évaluation
- 3.9
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- ISBN
- 312
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- 6
- Favoris
- 12
> 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.
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