For 10 points, name this author of picaresque novels concerning the adventures of individuals such as Sir Launcelot Greaves, Ferdinand, Count Fathom, Peregrine Pickle, Humphrey Clinker, and Roderick Random.
This man's probing of the medicinal value of the health resort at Bath led him to write the fascinating "An Essay on the External Use of Water." A character modeled after this man appears at the grand portico of the Pantheon and proclaims that "Tis nothing but a huge cock-pit," and is reported to have used the Venus of Medicis "worse than a common strumpet," in Sterne's A Sentimental Journey. Sterne's work was a response to this man's Travels Through France and Italy. He borrowed from Juvenal for his verse satires Advice and Reproof. A haberdasher gets a lesson about ancient Japan from an omniscient particle in his The History and Adventures of an Atom. For 10 points, name this author of picaresque novels concerning the adventures of individuals such as Sir Launcelot Greaves, Ferdinand, Count Fathom, Peregrine Pickle, Humphrey Clinker, and Roderick Random.
This man's probing of the medicinal value of the health resort at Bath led him to write the fascinating "An Essay on the External Use of Water."
Tobias Smollett