Art and Money in the Writings of Tobias Smollett

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Bucknell University Press, 2007 - 227 ページ
Offering a fresh perspective on a misunderstood eighteenth-century novelist, this study situates Tobias Smollett (1721-71) as the chief witness to the birth of the modern commercial art market. By examining the critical remarks and characters in Smollett's journalism and histories, the novels Peregrine Pickle and Humphry Clinker, and Travels Through France and Italy, the novelist is portrayed as fully involved with the commercial art market even while he offered perceptive criticism of it. Smollett's complete reviews of fine art from The Critical Review are published for the first time in an annotated appendix, while his involvement with the lavish illustration of his massive Complete History of England is analyzed in a second appendix. The approach to fine art that emerges from his writing modifies our understanding of the public art market of today, making this study of interest not only to Smollett scholars and students of eighteenth-century fiction but also to those interested in the history of art and aesthetic appreciation. William L. Gibson is an independent scholar.

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Acknowledgments
7
Introduction A Scot Fine Art Money and the Need for Criticism
11
Commerce and Aesthetics Smollett as Witness to the Birth of the Commercial Art Market
16
That laudable ardour for improvement Smolletts Art Reviews in The Critical Review175663
33
Smolletts Portrait of a Painter Layman Pallet in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
81
A Courtesan a Cockpit and a Peasant Iconoclastic Tourism in Travels Through France and Italy
107
Bath and Other Follies Landscape Painting and Fashionable Architecture in The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
137
The Fine Art Articles in the Critical Review 17561763
163
The Illustration of the Complete History and its Continuation
179
Notes
187
Selected Bibliography
204
Index
217
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William L. Gibson taught literature for two years at Lehman College, CUNY, and currently teaches at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

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