"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"--
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 Deciphering a hitherto unpublished letter / Frank Felsenstein -- "Broiling on the Coast of Guinea": Tobias Smollett and Atlantic slavery / Matthew Lee -- Don Quixote in Eighteenth-Century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.