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- The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: University of Georgia Press
- Series: The Works of Tobias Smollett
summary
The first novel by a major English writer that is devoted to a thoroughgoing portrait of villainy, The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom chronicles the life of an aberrant criminal character. Filled with striking satiric thrusts at the legal, medical, and military establishments of mid-eighteenth-century Europe and England, the novel reveals Tobias Smollett's capacities as a commentator on contemporary life.
First published in 1753, Ferdinand Count Fathom is an experimental work that explores the relations between history and fiction and introduces, for the first time in the English novel, episodes of Gothic melodrama. Too long neglected and never before available in a carefully prepared scholarly edition, Ferdinand Count Fathom may now be read, understood, and appreciated against the literary and historical background of the eighteenth-century world.
Table of Contents
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- List of Illustrations
- pp. xi-xii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xv-xvi
- List of Abbreviations
- pp. xvii-xviii
- Introduction
- pp. xix-xlii
- Notes to the Text
- pp. 361-440
- Textual Commentary
- pp. 441-452
- List of Emendations
- pp. 453-454
- Textual Notes
- pp. 455-456
- Word-Division
- pp. 457-458
- Historical Collation
- pp. 459-462
- Bibliographical Descriptions
- pp. 463-464
- Table of Corrections
- pp. 481-482
- Further Reading
- p. 483
Additional Information
ISBN
9780820346427
Related ISBN(s)
9780820310107
MARC Record
OCLC
872274775
Pages
528
Launched on MUSE
2015-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No