In addition to a critical introduction, this edition provides extensive annotation and appendices with material on Smollettโs correspondence, the bookโs reception in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, related travel writing, and Smollettโs infamous satirization as โSmelfungusโ in Sterneโs A Sentimental Journey.
Frank Felsenstein is Reed D. Voran Honors Distinguished Professor in Humanities and Professor of English at Ball State University.