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2. Travels Through France and Italy - Wikipedia

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   Smollett used the opportunity to deride the social norms of the Kingdom of France and the Italian states, and to voice his Anti-Catholicism. The book inspired a reply in the novel A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768) by Laurence Sterne, which contained a satirical depiction of Smollett as Smelfungus.

3. Tobias Smollett - Wikipedia

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   Tobias Smollett as depicted on the Scott Monument. Tobias George Smollett (bapt. 19 March 1721 – 17 September 1771) was a Scottish writer and surgeon. [1] He was best known for writing picaresque novels such as The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748), The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751) and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771), [2] which influenced later generations of British ...

4. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker - Wikipedia

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   The Expedition of Humphry Clinker was the last of the picaresque novels of Tobias Smollett, published in London on 17 June 1771 (three months before Smollett's death), and is considered by many to be his best and funniest work. [1]

5. Jussie Smollett - Wikipedia

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   Jussie Smollett was born in Santa Rosa, California, [2] to Joel and Janet (née Harris) Smollett. He has three brothers and two sisters: Jake, Jocqui, Jojo, Jurnee, and Jazz, several of whom are also actors. [3] Smollett is biracial [4] and Jewish. [5] His mother is African-American, and his father is Jewish. [6]

6. Jurnee Smollett on Making Historical Dramas Like ‘The Order ...

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   Smollett has grown used to hearing sentiments like that — with “Lovecraft Country,” for example, audiences were inspired to research more about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre or sundown towns ...

7. Smelfungus - Wikipedia

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   Smelfungus is a character in the novel A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, written by Laurence Sterne in 1768. The character was created as a satire of Tobias Smollett, himself author of a volume of Travels Through France and Italy, which was published in 1766. Sterne had met Smollett during his own travels in Europe, and strongly ...

8. Journey 2: The Mysterious Island - Wikipedia

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   Journey 2: The Mysterious Island is a 2012 American science fantasy action-adventure film [4] directed by Brad Peyton and produced by Beau Flynn, Tripp Vinson and Charlotte Huggins. A sequel to Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008), the film is based on Jules Verne 's The Mysterious Island (1875).

9. The Critical Review (newspaper) - Wikipedia

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   The content was mainly book reviews, which were often long and favourable, with copious verbatim quotations. [1] The Tory and High Church perspectives of contributors came through clearly, however. Besides Smollett, the writers of the first two volumes have been identified as John Armstrong, Samuel Derrick, Thomas Francklin, and Patrick Murdoch ...