Student Guide to Tobias George Smollett (Paperback)

The purpose of this series is to promote the study of writing in the English language through the introduction of the major figures writing in English throughout the ages. The books provide an analytical and historical framework for understanding their subjects. Robert Gidding's sociological approach to Smollett re-illuminates a Scottish novelist who has received scant regard from critics. In this study he demonstrates how Smollett became one of the first of Great Britain's writers to earn a living from his pen, and how he was a major novelist in his own right and an important influence on Dickens.