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Tobias Smollett After 300 Years:: Life, Writing, Reputation

Name: Tobias Smollett After 300 Years:: Life, Writing, Reputation
Brand: Clemson University Press W/ Lup
SKU: 9781638040811
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Contributors:

Richard J. Jones (Editor)

Publisher:

Clemson University Press W/ Lup

Binding:

Hardcover

Book Category:

History, Education, Biography & Autobiography

Book Subcategory:

Literary Figures

Series:

Eighteenth Century Moments

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Release Date:

2024-01-01

ISBN 13:

9781638040811

Weight:

1.4 lbs

Size:

8.80 x 6.10 x 1.00 inches

Pages:

256

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Tobias Smollett After 300 Years offers a collection of essays on one of the great literary figures of the eighteenth century: the Scottish writer, Tobias Smollett (1721-1771). Drawing together the work of an international group of scholars, with a variety of critical approaches, the book examines aspects of Smollett's life, writing and reputation on the occasion of the three-hundredth anniversary of his birth. Smollett is perhaps best known today as a novelist. However, he also worked tirelessly as a translator, historian, critic and editor. Whilst this book gives space to Smollett's innovations in writing fiction (described, variously, as malapropic, metaleptic, avuncular and periodical), it also draws on his wider work, situating it in the intellectual and visual culture of the book trade, traditions of domestic and humoral medicine, the politics of the Anglo-Scottish Union and projects to write a national history. Moments of Smollett's biography are revisited through newly-published correspondence, including accounts of his relationship to the sale of enslaved people. A new area for Smollett studies - his reception in Russia - suggests the reach of his work. The book concludes with some reflections on the state of Smollett studies today and the urgent message this eighteenth-century writer might bring to twenty-first century classrooms.

About the Author
Richard J. Jones is Senior Lecturer in Literature at The Open University in the UK. He is the author of Tobias Smollett in the Enlightenment: Travels through France, Italy and Scotland (Bucknell University Press, 2011) along with articles on Smollett's historical and critical writing. He has offered an overview of Smollett studies for Literature Compass (2018) and contributed a chapter on Smollett's periodical writing to the academic textbook Studying English Literature in Context: Critical Readings (Cambridge University Press, 2022). He is interested in recovering the kind of 'literature' David Hume once described as being the 'ruling passion' of his life.

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