Includes bibliography (pages 339-340), bibliographical footnotes and index.
Contents:
Youth and education in Scotland, 1721-1739 -- Naval service and marriage, 1739-1743 -- Surgery and literary apprenticeship, 1747-1750 -- Friendships and ventures in opera and drama, 1747-1750 -- Success with Gil Blas and Roderick Random; Publication of The regicide, 1747-1750 -- Chelsea and Paris; Peregrine Pickle, 1750-1752 -- Book reviewing and medical interests, 1750-1752 -- Lawsuits; Count Fathom and Don Quixote, 1752-1755 -- The beginning of the Critical review and A complete history of England, 1755-1760 -- Minor and miscellaneous writing; Imprisonment; Launcelot Greaves, 1760-1763 -- The search for health in France and Italy; The travels, 1763-1766 -- Final years in England and Scotland, 1766-1768 -- Final years in Italy; The Atom and Humphry Clinker, 1768-1771 -- A concluding view of Smollett's personality -- Smollett's contribution to the English novel.
Subject Terms:
Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721-1771 -- Knowledge and learning. | Authors, Scottish -- Conduct of life -- Biography. | Medicine -- History -- 18th century. | Physicians. | Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721-1771. | History, 18th Century. | Physicians. | physicians. | Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721-1771. | Learning and scholarship. | Manners and customs. | Hilles, Frederick Whiley, 1900- -- Provenance (BAC,REF)