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Tobias Smollett after 300 years : life, writing, reputation / edited by Richard J. Jones.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- 18th Century Moments
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721-1771--Criticism and interpretation.
- Smollett, T.
- Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721-1771--Anniversaries, etc.
- Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721-1771.
- Authors, Scottish--18th century--Biography.
- Authors, Scottish.
- Anniversaries.
- 1700-1799.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Literary criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 343 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Tobias Smollett after three hundred years
- Place of Publication:
- Clemson : Clemson University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Was Smollett into body-snatching? Deciphering a hitherto unpublished letter / Frank Felsenstein
- "Broiling on the Coast of Guinea": Tobias Smollett and Atlantic slavery / Matthew Lee
- Don Quixote in Eighteenth-Century British book culture: Tobias Smollett and Francis Hayman / M. A. Katritzky
- "Justness of Distinction": Class and taste in the monthly and critical reviews / Urmi Bhowmik
- "Such a domestic plague"? The silent stewardship of Tabitha Bramble in Smollett's Humphry Clinker / Laurence Sullivan
- "Be not solitary, be not idle": Smollett's epistolary travel narrative as Burtonian cure / Erin Severson
- Smollett, Hume, and the project of a politically skeptical national history / Spartaco Pupo
- "This United Kingdom": Tobias Smollett and the writing of Anglo-Scottish Union after the forty-five / Phineas Dowling
- Assimilation and anti-assimilation: Malapropic forms in Smollett's Humphry Clinker / Phillip M. Cortes
- Metalepsis and the fringe of reality in Smollett's Humphry Clinker / Mihaela Mudure
- Avuncular developments: Smollett's Peregrine Pickle / Hanne Roth
- The life and adventures of Tobias Smollett / Richard J. Jones
- "This is a laugh riot": Reading Smollett in Tsarist Russia / Artem Serebrennikov
- "Inferior to Engels": Publishing Smollett in Stalinist Russia / Peter Budrin
- The best of Smollett, the worst of Smollett: Reflections on twenty years of editing / Leslie A. Chilton
- "Classless and unconfined": Tobias Smollett and the human condition / Daniel H. Ferris.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical records and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-83553-369-8
- 1-63804-082-6
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