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Bloody Bisho. (Bisho, Ciskei, South Africa) (Editorial)
The Nation
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October 5, 1992|
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Bisho, capital of the "independent homeland" of Ciskei, rises from the barren red earth of the eastern Cape with imperial European grandeur and is perhaps the only town in the world that includes in its building regulations the diktat that all architecture must be "postmodern." Such is its artificial construct; such is its flagrant ahistoricity. And yet after Brigadier Oupa Gqozo's troops fired into a crowd of demonstrators marching on the ersatz capital, murdering twenty-eight supporters of the African National Congress, Bisho joined a South African tradition: that of ...
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Sentimental misogyny and medicine in 'Humphry Clinker.' (English author Tobias George Smollett's 18th-century novel 'The Expedition of Humphry Clinker')
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
; ...cure.(2) In Humphry Clinker, Tobias Smollett's medical and literary knowledge...his only novel of sensibility, Smollett may have been yielding to popular...barbarism."(6) Interestingly, Smollett's novel intervenes in this debate...
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Smollett's Representation and Critique of the Traffic in Women: a Narrative Strand in Roderick Random.(Tobias George Smollett)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Philological Quarterly
; ...degradation is exceptional, the scenario itself is common enough: we shall see something like it in the fate of Miss Williams in Smollett's Roderick Random. In The Way of the World Fainall, learning of his wife's infidelity, offers his own version: Lady...
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Smollett vs. Hawkesworth: the trouble with 'Telemachus.' (Tobias Smollett and John Hawkesworth)
Magazine article from: ANQ
; ...Archibald Hamilton gave to Smollett for the copyright of...2] Though proving Smollett's responsibility...Bouce, in The Novels of Tobias Smollett, had conducted a comparison...Hawkesworth's death in 1773, George Gregory, an ordained...
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 "The Mirror (London, England)")
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Who the hell is Tobias Smollett?; MYSTERY OVER LOCAL HERO.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England)
; ...refurbishing a statue of Smollett and building a protective...the campaign to give Smollett his rightful place in...to name him either." Smollett, born in 1721, is known...and Sir Walter Scott. George Orwell said he was...know their heritage. Tobias Smollet is our local...
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Books: INDECENT PLEASURES Will a new biography spur a revival of interest in the works of Tobias Smollett? D J Taylor hopes so
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday
; ...melancholy faces." Tobias Smollett (1721-1771) was a...Random, the hero of Smollett's first novel, apostrophises...arrival in the London of George II, "and I suppose...less, is the authentic Smollett atmosphere. The plot...
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Smollett's 'Peregrine Pickle' revisited.
Magazine article from: Studies in the Novel
; ...a Critical Edition of Smollett's Peregrine Pickle...Pickle for the Works of Tobias Smollett, published by the University...Mark Akenside, and George Lyttelton, the first...to the second edition Smollett levels various charges...
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Smollett's Scots and sodomites: British masculinity in Roderick Random.(The Adventures of Roderick Random)
Magazine article from: Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation
; ...Briton (1762-3), Tobias Smollett bitterly declared "Scotchman...detestable." (1) Smollett intended this polemical...improbable affair with George III's mother, the...Captain Whiffle. However, Smollett suggests that the Scot...
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Smollett's Scots and Sodomites: British Masculinity in Roderick Random
Magazine article from: The Eighteenth Century
; ...Briton (1762-3), Tobias Smollett bitterly declared "Scotchman...and detestable."1 Smollett intended this polemical...improbable affair with George Ill's mother, the...Captain Whiffle. However, Smollett suggests that the Scot...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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Tobias who? The local hero that the locals have never heard of; Plan to spend [pounds sterling]165,000 on forgotten literary great is branded a 'waste'.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...Dickens, while George Orwell hailed...language'. But in Tobias Smollett's home town...proud of. This Tobias guy is certainly...Gibson defended the Smollett project saying...private trust. Tobias Smollett was born to a...
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The greatest forgotten Scottish novelist; Books: Critic's choice.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...pounds sterling]20) GEORGE ORWELL described Tobias Smollett as Scotland's best novelist...that he was Scottish. Tobias George Smollett was born at Dalquhurn...in the resurrection of Tobias George Smollett, both as a novelist and...
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