Smollett, Tobias (George) - Robert Adams Day (essay date 1989)
Robert Adams Day (essay date 1989)
SOURCE: "Introduction," in The History and Adventures of an Atom by Tobias Smollet, edited by 0. M. Brack, Jr., The University of Georgia Press, 1989, pp. xxv-lxxi.
[In the following excerpt, Day examines the sources, politics, influences, and attribution of an obscure and little-studies novel by Smollett: The History and Adventures of an Atom. The editors have included only those Abbreviations and Footnotes that pertain to the excerpted portion of the introduction.]
It is safe to say that no lengthy work by a major British author (if we except their juvenilia) is so little known, or has been so little studied, as Tobias Smollett's History and Adventures of an Atom (1769). Only a handful of living persons have read it through; and the scholarship devoted to it, aside from brief mention in books or essays and a few short notes in learned journals, consists of three articles, a single chapter...
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