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Cadences of Unreason: A Study of Pride & Madness in the Novels of Tobias Smollett

Cadences of Unreason: A Study of Pride & Madness in the Novels of Tobias Smollett

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Series: Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studie, Book 210

Literary Criticism

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ISBN10: 3631422849
ISBN13: 9783631422847
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: Mar 1 1990
Pages: 266
Language: English
Approaching the works of Tobias Smollett (1721-1771) via his non-fictional writings, this study examines the relationship between pride and madness in Smollett's novels. All of Smollett's protagonists, it is suggested, can be characterized by their fall from one of the most valued faculties of the 18th century: reason. Vanity and pride imply a rejection of reason and lead towards a fall into madness - the total negation of reason. The character's deviations are charted with their accompanying falls until, eventually, they are redeemed and find their niche inevitably outside estalished society.

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