Tobias Smollett: Life, Works, Legacies
A special issue of Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (22 October 2021) | Viewed by 931
Special Issue Editor
Interests: 18th- and 19th-century literature; book history; authorship and appropriation studies; the gothic and the fantastical; the history of the novel; poetic genres; Scottish and Irish writing
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Often referred to as Scotland’s first major novelist, Tobias Smollett also wrote poetry, plays, histories, travelogues and translations, among other things. He also edited and contributed to leading eighteenth-century periodicals such as The Critical Review. However, he remains best known for his picaresque novels The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748), The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751) and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771). In 2021, three hundred years after the author’s birth (and two hundred and fifty years after his death), we will take stock of Smollett’s life and works, as well as his influence on other writers in the past three centuries. Contributors are invited to place Smollett in different contexts, including but not limited to the European novel, the Oriental tale, the British periodical, Scottish historical writing and more. Contributors may also consider Smollett’s relations with his peers, including such notable figures as Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith and David Garrick. Or, they might trace treatments of the author in the works of others, such as his cameo as the splenetic Smelfungus in Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey. Above all, we seek to demonstrate the full range of Smollett’s imagination, from the medical to the quixotic, the satirical to the sentimental.
Dr. Daniel Cook
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Tobias Smollett
- Scottish literature
- Scottish poetry
- Scottish fiction
- Eighteenth-century literature
- The European novel
- Picaresque fiction
- Periodical writing
- Travel writing
- Sensibility
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