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Article: REPRESENTING SCOTLAND IN RODERICK RANDOM AND HUMPHRY CLINKER: SMOLLETT'S DEVELOPMENT AS A NOVELIST.(Tobias Smollett)
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- Studies in the Novel
- Article date:
- March 22, 2001
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It is a critical commonplace that Tobias Smollett's last novel, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771), marks a departure from his earlier novels. In The Later Career of Tobias Smollett, still the most careful attempt to account for the differences between the early and the late Smollett, Louis L. Martz argues that Smollett's work as editor, compiler, travel writer, and historian in the 1750s and '60s, that is between The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom (1753), the last of his early novels, and Humphry Clinker, changed his creative outlook and accounts for the stylistic and intellectual advance represented by Smollett's last novel.(1) I agree with Martz's argument ...
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