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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Richard J. JonesPublisher: Clemson University Digital Press Imprint: Clemson University Digital Press ISBN: 9781638040811ISBN 10: 1638040818 Pages: 368 Publication Date: 01 December 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction Richard J. Jones Life and letters 1 Was Smollett into body-snatching? Deciphering a hitherto unpublished letter Frank Felsenstein 2 “Broiling on the Coast of Guinea”: Tobias Smollett and Atlantic slavery Matthew Lee Making books 3 Don Quixote in eighteenth-century British book culture: Tobias Smollett and Francis Hayman M. A. Katritzky 4 “Justness of Distinction”: class and taste in the Monthly and Critical Reviews Urmi Bhowmik The work of medicine 5 “Such a domestic plague”? The silent stewardship of Tabitha Bramble in Smollett’s Humphry Clinker Laurence Sullivan 6 “Be not solitary, be not idle”: Smollett’s epistolary travel narrative as Burtonian cure Erin Severson Making history 7 Smollett, Hume, and the project of a politically sceptical national history Spartaco Pupo 8 “This united kingdom”: Tobias Smollett and the writing of Anglo-Scottish Union after the Forty-Five Phineas Dowling Storytelling 9 Assimilation and anti-assimilation: malapropic forms in Smollett’s Humphry Clinker Phillip M. Cortes 10 Metalepsis and the fringe of reality in Smollett’s Humphry Clinker Mihaela Mudure 11 Avuncular developments: Smollett’s Peregrine Pickle Hanne Roth 12 The life and adventures of Tobias Smollett Richard J. Jones New receptions 13 “This is a laugh riot”: reading Smollett in Tsarist Russia Artem Serebrennikov 14 “Inferior to Engels”: Publishing Smollett in Stalinist Russia Peter Budrin Afterthoughts 15 The best of Smollett, the worst of Smollett: reflections on twenty years of editing Leslie A. Chilton 16 “Classless and unconfined”: Tobias Smollett and the human condition Daniel H. FerrisReviewsAuthor InformationRichard 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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