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Tony Jarrells

Title: Associate Professor
Department: English Language and Literature
College of Arts and Sciences
Email: jarrells@mailbox.sc.edu
Phone: 803-576-5993
Office: HUO 213
Resources: English Language and Literature
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Education 

PhD, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 2002

Areas of Specialization 

    Romanticism
    Eighteenth-Century Literature
    Scottish Literature

Recently Taught Courses 

    The Historical Novel
    Enlightenment and its Discontents
    Romanticism
    Literature and Society
    Jane Austen Lives!
    Frankenstein’s Monsters

Current Research and Activities

    Editor, John Galt’s Scottish Stories, The Edinburgh Edition of the Selected Works of John Galt (general editor Angela Esterhammer), Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2025
    “The Romance of Empire.” The Cambridge Companion to Walter Scott, ed. Ian Duncan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025)
    Eighteenth-Century Values: a book that examines the emergence of our modern conception of “values” in the literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
    The Time of the Tale: Regional Fiction and the Reordering of Tradition, 1760-1830: book-length study of the Romantic-period tale
    Co-editor (with Patrick Scott), Studies in Scottish Literature
    Conference Organizer, The Thirteenth International Walter Scott Conference

Selected Publications 

BOOKS
    Britain's Bloodless Revolutions: 1688 and the Romantic Reform of Literature (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2005; 2nd ed., paperback, 2012).
    Blackwood's Magazine, 1817-1825, ed., Vol. 2: Selected Prose (6 Vols., general editor Nicholas Mason). London: Pickering and Chatto, 2006.

SELECTED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
     “Regionalism: Scotland.” The Oxford Handbook of Romantic Prose, ed. Robert Morrison (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024), 247-262
     “Kelman, Gray, Welsh, and the New Urban Writing.” The Blackwell Companion to Scottish Literature, ed. Gerard Carruthers (Oxford: Blackwell, 2024), 538-550
     “Scott, the Novel, and Capital in the Nineteenth Century.” Scott at 250: Looking Forward, eds. Caroline McCracken-Flesher and Matthew Wickman (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021), 65-82
     “Reading for something other than the Plot in John Galt’s ‘Tales of the West.’” International Companion to John Galt, eds. Gerard Carruthers and Colin Kidd. (Edinburgh: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 2017), 110-124
     “James Hogg and the Medium of Romantic Prose.” Romantic Circles Praxis: “The Prose of Romanticism,” ed. Yoon Sun Lee (January 2017) https://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/prose/praxis.2016.prose.jarrells.html
     “Short Fictional Forms and the Rise of the Tale.” The Oxford History of the Novel in English, 1750-1820, eds. Peter Garside and Karen O’Brien (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), 478-494
     “We have never been National: Regionalism, Romance, and the Global in Walter Scott’s Waverley Novels.” Global Romanticism: Origins, Orientations, and Engagements, 1760-1820, ed. Evan Gottlieb (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2014), 109-127
     “Tales of the Colonies: Blackwood’s Provincialism and British Interests Abroad.” Blackwood’s and Romanticism, eds, Robert Morrison and Daniel Sanjiv Roberts (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2013), 267-78
     “‘Associations Respect[ing] the Past’: Enlightenment and Romantic Historicism.”  A Concise Companion to the Romantic Age, ed. Jon Klancher (Oxford: Blackwell, 2009), 57-77
     “Provincializing Enlightenment: Edinburgh Historicism and the Blackwoodian Regional Tale.” Studies in Romanticism 2 (Summer 2009), 257-277
     “Bloodless Revolution and the Form of the Novel.” NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction 1/2 (2003/2004), 24-44

SELECTED REVIEWS and other ESSAYS
     “A Glorious Phantom: Insurrections in Scottish Literature.” Studies in Scottish Literature, 46.1 (2020), 3-7. https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol46/iss1/3/
     Andrew Franta, Systems Failure: The Uses in Disorder in English Literature (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), The Wordsworth Circle, 50.4 (Autumn 2019), 531-537
     “Fresh Air: Michel Faber’s Under the Skin, with a comment on Trainspotting.” Studies in Scottish Literature2 (2017): 189-191. https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol43/iss2/6/
     “Cultural Nationalism in Scottish Literary Studies: The View from Elsewhere.” Studies in Scottish Literature 41 (2015), 13-18.  http://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/
     “Properties of Irish Fiction,” on Claire Connolly’s A Cultural History of the Irish Novel, 1790-1829 and Sara L. Maurer’s The Dispossessed State: Narratives of Ownership in 19th-Century Britain and Ireland. NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction3 (Fall 2014), 497-504.
     Regina Hewitt, ed., John Galt: Observations and Conjectures (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2012). Studies in Scottish Literature1 (Fall 2014), 228-235.  http://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/

Recent Presentations and Panels

   •  “History as a Mass Experience,” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR), Washington, DC, August 2024
     “Scott and the Insurrection,” The Thirteenth International Walter Scott Conference, Columbia, SC, May 2024
     “The Region-Boundedness of the Romantic Tale,” International Conference on Romanticism (ICR), Charleston, SC, October 2021
     “Scottish Literature and the Clearances,” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Seattle, WA, January 2020
     “James Hogg and the Extraordinary Time of the Past,” NASSR, Chicago, IL, August 2019
     “Collecting and Assembling: A Tale,” ICR, Greenville, SC, October 2018
     “Capital in the Nineteenth Century,” Eleventh International Walter Scott Conference, Paris, France, July 2018
     “The Value of Improvement,” British Association of Romantic Studies (BARS) conference, York, UK, July 2017


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