Miscellaneous Writings of Tobias Smollett

Tobias Smollett (1721–71) is best known as a novelist; however this prolific and talented author was also a notable historian, literary critic, translator, medical writer and satirist. This volume will help us to reassess our understanding of Smollett by presenting some of his most significant miscellaneous writings in a new critical edition. Chapter 1 Thomsonus Redivivus and Don Ricardo Honeywater Vindicated; Chapter 2 A Faithful Narrative of the Base and Inhuman Arts That were Lately Practised Upon the Brain of Habbakkuk Hilding (1752); Chapter 3 An Essay on the External Use of Water (1752); Chapter 4 Micromegas: A Comic Romance, Being a Severe Satire Upon the Philosophy, Ignorance, and Self-Conceit of Mankind, Together with a Detail of the Crusades, and a New Plan for the History of the Human Mind (1752); Chapter 5 Advertisement to William Smellie’s a Collection of Preternatural Cases and Observations in Midwifery (1764); Chapter 6 Smollett as Editor and Literary Reviewer; Chapter 7 The Present State of All Nations (1768–9);