The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves (The Works of Tobias Smollett Ser.)
Categories: Books, Humor & Entertainment, Humor



Dimensions: 6 x 1.11 x 9 inches
ISBN-13: 978-0820323077
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0820323071
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Print length: 368 pages
Publication date: February 12, 2002
subtitle: Hardcover – February 12, 2002
author: Tobias Smollett Alexander Pettit Barbara Laning Fitzpatrick O M Brack Jr. Robert Folkenflik
review: Editorial Reviews 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 the Author Tobias Smollett (Author) TOBIAS SMOLLETT (1721–1771) was a novelist, playwright, journalist, historian, travel writer, critic, translator, editor, and compiler―an eighteenth-century man of letters in the fullest sense of the phrase. O M Brack Jr. (Editor) O M BRACK, JR., a professor of English literature emeritus at Arizona State University, is coauthor of Samuel Johnson's Early Biographers and coeditor of The Early Biographies of Samuel Johnson . He has edited volumes of the Works of Samuel Johnson published by Yale and is textual editor for the Georgia series the Works of Tobias Smollett. Brack is the curator of the 2009 Johnson tercentenary exhibition at the Huntington Library. Robert Folkenflik (Editor) ROBERT FOLKENFLIK is the Edward A. Dickson Emeritus Professor of English 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 . Alexander Pettit (Editor) ALEXANDER PETTIT is an associate professor of English at the University of North Texas. He is also the general editor of three series: The Works of Tobias Smollett (Georgia), British Ideas and Issues, 1660-1820, and Selected Works of Eliza Haywood.