Tobias Smollett After 300 Years:

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.

• Introduction Richard J. JonesLife and letters 1 Was Smollett into body-snatching? Deciphering a hitherto unpublished letter Frank Felsenstein2 “Broiling on the Coast of Guinea”: Tobias Smollett and Atlantic slavery Matthew LeeMaking books 3 Don Quixote in eighteenth-century British book culture: Tobias Smollett and Francis Hayman M. A. Katritzky4 “Justness of Distinction”: class and taste in the Monthly and Critical Reviews Urmi BhowmikThe work of medicine 5 “Such a domestic plague”? The silent stewardship of Tabitha Bramble in Smollett’s Humphry Clinker Laurence Sullivan6 “Be not solitary, be not idle”: Smollett’s epistolary travel narrative as Burtonian cure Erin SeversonMaking history 7 Smollett, Hume, and the project of a politically sceptical national history Spartaco Pupo8 “This united kingdom”: Tobias Smollett and the writing of Anglo-Scottish Union after the Forty-Five Phineas DowlingStorytelling 9 Assimilation and anti-assimilation: malapropic forms in Smollett’s Humphry Clinker Phillip M. Cortes10 Metalepsis and the fringe of reality in Smollett’s Humphry Clinker Mihaela Mudure11 Avuncular developments: Smollett’s Peregrine Pickle Hanne Roth12 The life and adventures of Tobias Smollett Richard J. JonesNew receptions 13 “This is a laugh riot”: reading Smollett in Tsarist Russia Artem Serebrennikov14 “Inferior to Engels”: Publishing Smollett in Stalinist Russia Peter BudrinAfterthoughts 15 The best of Smollett, the worst of Smollett: reflections on twenty years of editing Leslie A. Chilton16 “Classless and unconfined”: Tobias Smollett and the human condition Daniel H. Ferris