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

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 three-hundredth anniversary of his birth.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Jones
• Assisted by: Richard J Jones (Editor), Richard J. Jones (Editor)
• Publisher: Clemson University Digital Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 28.11.2023, delayed
• EAN: 9781638040811
• ISBN: 978-1-63804-081-1
• No. of pages: 368
• Illustrations: 14 Illustrations
• Series: Clemson University Press: Eighteenth-Century Moments
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries