Blackwell Publishes Essay

Mark Blackwell, professor of English and associate dean, A&S, recently published an article titled “Disjecta Membra: Smollett and the Novel in Pieces” in The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, 52.3-4 (2011): 423-42. The article appears in a special issue, The Drift of Fiction, which reconsiders the early history of the novel in English.

Blackwell's article focuses on the oeuvre of a major figure, Tobias Smollett, whose work is often overlooked, examining Smollett's work in the context of it-narratives---the stories narrated by animals and objects that are Blackwell's primary scholarly focus.