Word: smollett
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this remember me Gertrude Stein in person, "The normal adolescent girl, busy with playmates, clothes, parties, school lessons, does not read Wordsworth, Scott, and other poets, a set of Shakespeare with notes, Burns, Congressional Records, encyclopedias; she does not absorb Shakespeare nor pore over Clarissa Harlowe, Fielding, Smollett, and a tremendous amount of history." Strangely, she already feared that there would not be enough books to fill her lifetime...
...academic history? The fact is that though no two "Janeites" can ever agree on what words to use in venerating the author of Pride and Prejudice, Emma and Mansfield Park, none doubt that worship is indicated. Even rugged Rudyard Kipling imagined her being greeted in paradise by Fielding, Smollett, Cervantes and Shakespeare...
...save a ball for the women and children." The reader can have himself a different kind of ball with this book-if he will only persevere. Versatile Author Taylor (Center Ring, W. C. Fields) follows in the footsteps of a master of the picaresque. Tobias Smollett's The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771) was a superbly comical novel, in letter form, about a family traveling around England in the days of highwaymen and top-heavy coaches. Author Taylor's book is not only a parody of Smollett's parody of 18th century travelogues, but of every Western...
...more than a question of manners. There is in much of our early fiction-in Fielding and Smollett, for example-a lot of rough-and-tumble, knockabout brutality, as much a reflection of its time as Hogarth's pictures were. But this new violence, with its sadistic overtones, is quite different. It is not simply coarse, brutal from a want of refinement and nerves, but genuinely corrupt, fundamentally unhealthy and evil. It does not suggest the fairground, the cattle market, the boxing booth, the horseplay of exuberant young males. It smells of concentration camps and the basements of secret...
...fertile and gifted English writer whose juicy novels are beginning to win the applause they deserve. While Gary's subject is 20th Century life, his work carries the rich old tone of the 18th Century English novel: the satiric shrewdness of a Fielding, the burly gusto of a Smollett, the finely cut detail of a Defoe. To undernourished imaginations, Gary offers a fat literary pudding, steaming with the odors of traditional England...