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100 1 $aSkinner, John,$d1945-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91059752
245 10 $aConstructions of Smollett :$ba study of genre and gender /$cJohn Skinner.
260 $aNewark, N.J. :$bUniversity of Delaware Press ;$aLondon :$bAssociated University Presses,$c[1996], ©1996.
300 $a267 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 254-261) and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction: Constructions of Smollett --$g1.$tRoderick Random and the Fiction of Autobiography --$g2.$tPeregrine Pickle and Tricks upon Travelers --$g3.$tUnique in their Genre: Satire from Fathom to the Atom.$tFerdinand Count Fathom: Satire and the Vanishing Picaresque.$tSir Launcelot Greaves and the Patterns of Romance.$tSatire and Fantasy: Splitting Smollett's Atom --$g4.$tJourney's End: Humphry Clinker and the Travels through France and Italy --$g5.$tConclusion: Constructions of Femininity.
520 $aProfessor John Skinner analyzes the prose narratives of Tobias George Smollett (1721-71) and their place in the development of the novel in Constructions of Smollett: A Study in Genre and Gender.
520 8 $aMoved by the fact that Smollett is now considered beneath the acquaintance of the common English reader and risks becoming the first major English novelist to have passed from widespread popularity to antiquarian status without an intermediate stage of critical esteem, Skinner set out to formulate a major revaluation of the writer.
520 8 $aConstructions of Smollett begins with a brief historical survey of critical response to the author before arguing that the author has been unfairly judged by the standards of the traditional realist novel. Chapter 1 discusses Roderick Random, using both traditional and modern approaches to autobiography, while chapter 2 considers Peregrine Pickle in the light of Bakhtinian carnival and modern games theory.
520 8 $aThe third chapter concentrates on Smollett's fundamental importance as a satirist with particular reference to his less popular works: Ferdinand Count Fathom, Sir Launcelot Greaves, and The Life and Adventures of an Atom. After a final section which examines the various roles of the journey in Humphry Clinker and the Travels through France and Italy, the Conclusion juxtaposes issues of genre and gender through an analysis of Smollett's constructions of femininity.
600 10 $aSmollett, T.$q(Tobias),$d1721-1771$xTechnique.
600 10 $aSmollett, T.$q(Tobias),$d1721-1771$xCharacters$xMen.
650 0 $aMasculinity in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94006169
650 0 $aGender identity in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94004327
650 0 $aSex role in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85120668
650 0 $aFiction$xTechnique.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85048065
650 0 $aMen in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083528
650 0 $aLiterary form.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85077490
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