Tobias Smollett in the Enlightenment

Tobias Smollett (1721-71) is best known today as a novelist whereas in the eighteenth century he was primarily regarded as a historian and critic. In Tobias Smollett in the Enlightenment, Richard J. Jones explores the diversity of Smollett''s journalistic and literary writings and establishes new connections between Smollett''s work and writers of the Scottish Enlightenment. Taking as his focal po...