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From the Typewriter to the Internet: Editing Smollett for the Twenty-First Century

The year 2016 marks the 250th anniversary of the publication of Tobias Smollett’s Travels through France and Italy (1766), which, in the early 21st century, was named one of the greatest travel books of all time. Frank Felsenstein, editor of the 1979 Oxford University Press edition of Smollett’s Travels (and the Broadview Press 2011 edition), discusses the original publication of the book and its reception history, as well as his own recollections of first studying the Travels. He examines the changes in editorial research methods from the time of the typewriter to the era of the internet and the ways in which the electronic archive can be plumbed for yet more exciting revelations about this and other eighteenth-century works.