2.2 Novels
The Adventures of Roderick Random, published anonymously[11]
1751: The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, published anonymously[11]
1753: The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom[11]
1762: The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves, first book edition, originally serialised in The British Magazine, January 1760 – December 1761 (see below)[11]
1769: The History and Adventures of an Atom[11]
1771: The Expedition of Humphry Clinker[11]
Plays[edit]
1749: The Regicide; or, James the First, of Scotland: A tragedy (play)[11]
1757: The Reprisal; or, The Tars of Old England: A comedy, anonymously published; a play performed on 22 January[11]
Non-fiction[edit]
1756: A Compendium of Authentic and Entertaining Voyages, published anonymously[11]
1757–1758: A Complete History of England by David Hume, in four volumes, with Smollett adding his own Continuation of the History of England from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II, published 1760–65, as an additional volume[11]
1766: Travels through France and Italy[11]
1768–1769: The Present State of all Nations, in eight volumes[11]
The Narrative of the Base and Inhuman Arts that were Lately Practised upon the Brain of Habbakkuk Hilding
The Expedition against Carthagena
The Dying Prediction
Commentary on a Philosophical Dictionary, (10 volumes)
Periodicals[edit]
1756: Editor and co-writer, The Critical Review; or, Annals of Literature, a periodical published semi-annually until 1790[11]
Date unknown: Editor, Universal History[1]
1760: The British Magazine, a periodical published in eight volumes; Volumes 1 and 2 include the first publication of Launcelot Greaves (see below)[11]
Radio
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker was adapted for radio in three one-hour episodes in August 2008. It was dramatised by Yvonne Antrobus and starred Stuart McLoughlin as Clinker and Nigel Anthony as Matthew Bramble.
Smollett, the only major eighteenth-century English novelist whose work can seriously be called picaresque, came to the writing of novels with a strong sense of Scottish national pride (an alienating element in the London of the 1750s and 1760s), a Tory feeling for a lost order, horrifying experiences as a physician, and a fierce determination to make his way in the literary world. Prolific in a variety of literary forms, he was particularly successful as a popular historian, magazine editor, translator of Cervantes (see Vol. 2), and author of novels about adventurous, unscrupulous, poor young men. His work is marked by vigorous journalistic descriptions of contemporary horrors, such as shipboard amputations or the filthy curative waters of Bath; by a flair for racy narrative often built on violence and sentiment, and for comedy that often relies on practical jokes and puns; and by a great gift for creating comic caricatures. His peppery Travels through France and Italy (1766) was something of a spur to Laurence Sterne's Sentimental Journey, in which Smollett is referred to as Dr. Smelfungus, who "set out with the spleen and jaundice, and every object he passed by was discolored or distorted---He wrote an account of them, but 'twas nothing but the account of his miserable feelings." Smollett's most notable novels are Roderick Random (1748), Peregrine Pickle Pickle (1751), Ferdinand Count Fathom (1753), Sir Launcelot Greaves (1762), which set a precedent by first being serialized in his British Magazine (January 1760--December 1761), and especially The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker (1771), a relatively mellow work that follows the travels of Matthew Bramble, an excitable Welshman, from his home through chaotic England to idyllic Loch Lomond and back. Bramble himself finds what Smollett had irrecoverably lost---his health---as well as a son from his youth. Smollett died in 1771, the year of the novel's appearance, in Leghorn, Italy, and is buried in the English cemetery there.
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