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The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, Tobias Smollett's last published novel and most celebrated work, appeared in June 1771, three months before the author's death. A classic in the history of the English novel, it takes the form of a collection of letters written by various members of Mr. Matthew Bramble's family (for whom Humphry Clinker is a general servant) during their eight months of travel in England and Scotland in the 1760s. The wanderings of the Bramble party result in a series of amusing adventures and episodes, unfolding within the main plot in which the eccentric and contentious characters"originals" as Bramble's nephew calls themdiscover the sources of true happiness. In this work, Smollett realized two long-standing artistic goalsa harmonious fusion of satire and comedy and, through the deliberate intertwining of historical and contrived details, a portrayal of the world as constructed from both fiction and fact. In achieving the latter, Smollett was aided by the novel's form, for the epistolary style of travel books in his day set a precedent for the extensive commentary on incidents, experiences, people, and places in Humphry Clinker and allowed him to relate the sam

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Author

Brack, O. M.;Preston, Thomas R.;Smollett, T

Publisher

University of Georgia Press

Published

1990

Language

EN

ISBN

9780820312033

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.86 / 5 (7 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-24