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Article: Sentimental misogyny and medicine in 'Humphry Clinker.' (English author Tobias George Smollett's 18th-century novel 'The Expedition of Humphry Clinker')
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- Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
- Article date:
- June 22, 1997
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On one level, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771) presents its readers with a cast of scraggly, wryly drawn "originals" roaming Britain, including the tatterdemalion Humphry Clinker himself, the quixotic Obadiah Lismahago, and the curmudgeonly Matthew Bramble. It also, however, provides a rare eighteenth-century portrait of England as a "body politic."(1) The connection between an individual's physical health and moral well-being, for example, an issue often discussed in criticism of the novel, also correlates to the health of the nation's social body, which, in the novel's view, is diseased and in need of a cure.(2) In Humphry Clinker, Tobias Smollett's medical and ...
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