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The Life and Adventures of Tobias Smollett
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This chapter attempts to find a narrative distributed across the writings of Tobias Smollett. Although Smollett’s works might be studied individually, this chapter suggests that, when his writing is taken as a whole, another performance or ‘work of writing’ is disclosed. The chapter takes its lead from Smollett’s earliest writings – two little-studied medical pamphlets – in order to suggest how his work becomes a form of serial publication, informed by a performance as a periodical writer. The chapter thus sees Smollett’s relationship with Cervante’s Don Quixote as a defining part of his work. In the end, what matters is not the work of a particular text: instead, Smollett directs us to an ongoing work of mediation (through which everything must be read).
Title: The Life and Adventures of Tobias Smollett
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This chapter attempts to find a narrative distributed across the writings of Tobias Smollett.
Although Smollett’s works might be studied individually, this chapter suggests that, when his writing is taken as a whole, another performance or ‘work of writing’ is disclosed.
The chapter takes its lead from Smollett’s earliest writings – two little-studied medical pamphlets – in order to suggest how his work becomes a form of serial publication, informed by a performance as a periodical writer.
The chapter thus sees Smollett’s relationship with Cervante’s Don Quixote as a defining part of his work.
In the end, what matters is not the work of a particular text: instead, Smollett directs us to an ongoing work of mediation (through which everything must be read).
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