The History of Jack Connor (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781846823992)

The History of Jack Connor (1752) is the only (and once very popular) novel of the Irish writer of Huguenot descent, William Chaigneau (1709-1781). An example of sentimental picaresque fiction in the manner of Alain-Rene Lesage's Gil Blas (1715-1747) and Tobias Smollett's Roderick Random (1748), the work also reveals Chaigneau's admiration for Henry Fielding's then-controversial Tom Jones (1749). The entertaining wanderings of Jack Connor take him from his birth and childhood in an Ireland described in unusual detail - through London, Paris, Flanders, and Spain - before returning him to the Co. Limerick of his birth. Describing the novel as a 'truly moral tale, ' the London Monthly Review (1747) acknowledged the justice of the author's 'smart reprisals upon the English, for their national and vulgar prejudice against their brethren of Ireland.' (Series: Early Irish Fiction, c.1680-1820)

Author: Ian Campbell Ross
ISBN-10: 1846823994
ISBN-13: 9781846823992
Publisher: Four Courts Press
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2014
Pages: 270
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.20w x 1.20d