Article: "I will take the whole upon my own shoulders": collections and corporeality in 'Humphry Clinker.' (by Tobias Smollett)

Finally, if you and I should come to a right understanding, I do declare in verbo sacerdotis, that ... I will take the whole upon my own shoulders, even quoad fine and imprisonment, though, I must confess, I should not care to undergo flagellation....(1)

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Tobias Smollett prefaces The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771) with a telling and adumbrative literary exchange that defines his epistolary novel's dynamics of collection. As editor Dustwich and bookseller Davis, in their brief correspondence, negotiate the publication of the letters that make up Humphry Clinker's three volumes, they also introduce the fact that the construction of collections ...

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