Title: Tobias Smollett, doctor of men and manners.
Authors: Knapp, Lewis M.; Vidal, Gore,
Date: 1949
Publisher: Princeton University Press,
Physical description: xiii, 362 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC class: P
Contents: Youth and education in Scotland, 1721-1739 -- Naval service and marriage, 1739-1743 -- Surgery and literary apprenticeship, 1747-1750 -- Friendships and ventures in opera and drama, 1747-1750 -- Success with Gil Blas and Roderick Random; Publication of The regicide, 1747-1750 -- Chelsea and Paris; Peregrine Pickle, 1750-1752 -- Book reviewing and medical interests, 1750-1752 -- Lawsuits; Count Fathom and Don Quixote, 1752-1755 -- The beginning of the Critical review and A complete history of England, 1755-1760 -- Minor and miscellaneous writing; Imprisonment; Launcelot Greaves, 1760-1763 -- The search for health in France and Italy; The travels, 1763-1766 -- Final years in England and Scotland, 1766-1768 -- Final years in Italy; The Atom and Humphry Clinker, 1768-1771 -- A concluding view of Smollett's personality -- Smollett's contribution to the English novel.