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

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

Jones, Richard J.

Hardcover

Series: Clemson University Press: Eighteenth-Century Moments

Literary FiguresGeneral EducationGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1638040818
ISBN13: 9781638040811
Publisher: Clemson University Press W/ Lup
Published: Dec 1 2023
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.10 Depth: 8.80
Language: English

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.

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