Smollett's Persona and the Melancholic Traveler
An Hypothesis
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 16004010 |
|---|---|
| Autores | John F Sena (autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 1968 |
| Volumen | 1 |
| Número | 4 |
| Páginas | 353-353 |
| Fecha de publicación | 1968-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | No |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Eighteenth-Century Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0013-2586 • E-ISSN: 1086-315X |
| Editorial | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2737856 |
| OpenAlex | W2318230685 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 2 |
O VER THE PAST TWO HUNDRED YEARS novelists and critics have given us a diversified picture of Tobias Smollett. The Reverend Alexander Carlyle, an intimate friend of novelist, recalled in his Autobiography that Smollett possessed a philosophical mind, and was capable of making soundest observations on human life, 1 whereas William Hazlitt contended that Smollett seldom probes to quick, or penetrates beyond surface. 2 Coleridge's remark that he found the congeniality of humor with pathos, so exquisite in . . . Smollett, I is in substantial agreement with Critical Review of 1762, which found strong indications of Smollett's benevolent heart in Sir Launcelot Greaves (17601761).4 Laurence Sterne, however, satirically portrayed Smollett in A Sentimental Journey (1768) as truculent and misanthropic Smelfungus. Sterne was expressing an opinion which has persisted into twentieth century, for a contemporary scholar writing on Smollett's Travels Through France and Italy (1766) remarked that
Art · Humanities · Persona · History · Literature: history, themes, analysis · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism · Travel Writing and Literature
| Obras citantes distintas | 2 |
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| Citas por año | 0,12 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2009 - 2019 (11) |
| Velocidad de citación | historical |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 2 |