The life and adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves; (Oxford English novels) - Hardcover

Smollett, Tobias George

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 019255364X ISBN 13: 9780192553645

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1973

Synopsis

Price clipped and worn dust jacket has a faded spine, bookseller's pencil marks, page edges tanned. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

About this title

About the Author:

Robert Folkenflik is a professor of English and comparative literature at the University of California, Irvine. He served as general editor of the series Irvine Studies in the Humanities. His books include "Samuel Johnson, Biographer and The English Hero, 1660-1800." Barbara Laning Fitzpatrick is a professor of English at the University of New Orleans. She has published articles in the "Library," "Analytical and Enumerative Bibliography," "Eighteenth-Century Fiction," and "Studies in Newspaper and Periodical History."

Review:

Folkenflik's intoduction does a skillful job of setting the novel in its formal, biographical and historical contexts, and his judicious notes are a mine of information on the issues and antagonisms that animate the text.

(Thomas Keymer Times Literary Supplement)

The republication of these marginal works in definitive editions, and the convincing reintegration of the translations into Smollet's corpus, will enable Smollett scholars to reassess their significance. And for that reason alone the texts are valuable. But the editions are also relevant to a broader number of current critical conversations not least because of their superb apparatus. . . .The importance of [this] edition to Smollett studies cannot be overstated.

(Sharon Alkner Eighteenth Century Scotland)

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1973
• ISBN 10: 019255364X
• ISBN 13: 9780192553645
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 234