Tobias Smollett wrote eighteenth-century comic and picaresque fiction about travellers, sailors, soldiers and social climbers moving through a rough, argumentative Britain. The Adventures of Roderick Random follows an orphan through medicine, naval service, poverty and opportunistic attempts to improve his position, while Peregrine Pickle sends another ambitious young man through education, travel and a succession of feuds. Humphry Clinker is structured through letters written by members of a travelling household, allowing the same places and incidents to be seen from different social viewpoints. Smollett's novels are energetic, coarse and episodic rather than tightly plotted. They fit picaresque fiction, eighteenth-century satire and comic travel narrative. Read more Less
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