Tag Archives: Humphry Clinker

Smollett: Country Water over City Water

My mother is finding a necessary switch from lake water to city water psychologically difficult. Smollett’s “Humphry Clinker” helps me understand why.

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How Smollett Would React to Flint Water

Matthew Bramble in Tobias Smollett’s “Humphry Clinker” unloads about the supposedly medicinal water of Bath. Just think how he would react to the water crisis in Flint, Michigan.

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Into the Depths with Smollett (Don’t Ask)

My upcoming colonoscopy has me thinking about Tobias Smollett’s “Humphry Clinker.”

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Everyone Has a Place at the Table

Tobias Smollett’s depiction in “Humphry Clinker” of different perspectives on social change is relevant today.

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