Tony Jarrells: Department of English Langugage and Literature, University of South Carolina


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Tony Jarrells Associate Professor Office: 213 Humanities Office Building (803) 777-2745 jarrells@mailbox.sc.edu Education Ph.D., State University of New York, Stony Brook, 2002 Specialization Areas Romanticism Eighteenth-Century Literature Genre Theory Recent Courses See Course Descriptions for detailed information. Undergraduate Engl 411: British Romantic Literature Engl 383: Romanticism Engl 289: British Literature II Engl 419: Special Topics: The City in the Eighteenth Century and Romantic Period Graduate Engl 720: The Novel before 1800 Engl 830: Making the Secondary Primary: Debates in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Criticism Engl 718: English Literature of the Later Eighteenth Century Engl 723: British Romantic Poetry Current Research Project I am currently working on a book-length study of the Romantic-period tale. “The Time of the Tale: Romanticism, Genre, and the ‘Intermixing’ of Enlightenment” attempts to answer the following two questions: first, what happens to our understanding of the Romantic period if, following recent bibliographic figures, we view it as a time of tales? Second, how do tales use time differently than do other Romantic-period genres, like lyric or the novel? I am also working on an essay entitled “Romanticism and Enlightenment: a Tale of Two Periods,” for the forthcoming Blackwell Concise Companion to Romanticism (ed. Jon Klancher). Recent Publications Britain’s Bloodless Revolutions: 1688 and the Romantic Reform of Literature. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2005. Blackwood’s Magazine, 1817-1825, Vol. 2: Selected Prose (6 Vols., general editor Nicholas Mason) London: Pickering and Chatto, 2006. "Provincializing Enlightenment: Edinburgh Historicism and the Blackwoodian Regional Tale." Forthcoming in Studies in Romanticism. "Bloodless Revolution and the Form of the Novel." Novel: A Forum on Fiction 37.1/2 (Fall 2003 / Spring 2004): 24-44. Reviews in European Romantic Review, Romanticism, and Romantic Circles. Recent and Upcoming Presentations: “‘[A]nd if thy tale be true’: Generic Figures and the Retelling of Literary History,” Modern Language Association, Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, December 2007. “Provincializing Enlightenment,” Scottish Romanticism and World Literatures Conference, Center for British Study, University of California, Berkeley, CA, September 2006. “Romance after Novels,” Modern Language Association, Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., December 2005. “The Time of the Tale: James Hogg’s ‘Shepherd’s Calendar’ and the Politics of Blackwood’s,” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Montreal, CA, August 2005