An examination of Tobias Smollett's The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Harvey Heywood Fenigsohn (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
- Advisor
- Randolph Bulgin
Abstract: My thesis is a critical examination of The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771), the final novel of Tobias George Smollett. In an analysis of both its style and substance, I concentrate on both the form and content of this literary work. Divided into four chapters, the thesis first examines Smollett's unique fusion of the picaresque mode in an epistolary form. Though acknowledging Smollett's debt to earlier picaresque conventions, I emphasize his special innovation -- the multiplying of the one first-person narrators of his epistolary novel. Here, I assess the psychological advantage and the artistic effect of rendering single events through the subjective impressions of several distinct characters.
An examination of Tobias Smollett's The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
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- Publication
- Thesis
- Language: English
- Date: 1967
- Subjects
- Smollett, T. $q (Tobias), $d 1721-1771 $x Criticism and interpretation
- Smollet, T. $q (Tobias), $d 1721-1771. $t Expedition of Humphry Clinker