Tony Jarrells
Associate Professor
Office: 213 Humanities
(803) 777-2745
jarrells@gwm.sc.edu
Education
Ph.D., State University of New York, Stony Brook, 2002
Specialization Areas
- Enlightenment and Romantic Studies
- Eighteenth-Century Literature
- Genre Theory
Recent Courses
See Course Descriptions for detailed information.
Undergraduate:
- ENGL 289: English Literature II
- ENGL 383: Romanticism
- ENGL 415: The English Novel I
- ENGL 419: Special Topics: The Romantic City
Graduate:
- ENGL 724: British Prose / Novel of the Romantic Period
- ENGL 720: The Novel before 1800
- ENGL 830: Making the Secondary Primary: Debates in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Criticism
- ENGL 723: British Romantic Poetry
Current Research Project
I am currently at work on two projects. One of them, “The Time of the Tale: Romanticism, Genre, and the ‘Intermixing’ of Enlightenment,” is a book-length study of the Romantic-period tale. It 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?
The other project, “Meteorological Marxism; or, how James Hogg Predicted the Coming of Mike Davis,” is an article on meteorology and literature – or more specifically, on the “malign interaction between climatic and economic processes” (Davis) as it has featured in historical tales from the early nineteenth century to the present.
Recent Publications
“‘Associations Respect[ing] the Past’: Enlightenment and Romantic Historicism.” A Concise Companion to the Romantic Age, ed. Jon Klancher (Oxford: Blackwell, 2009).
“Provincializing Enlightenment: Edinburgh Historicism and the Blackwoodian Regional Tale.” Forthcoming in Studies in Romanticism (2008).
Britain’s Bloodless Revolutions: 1688 and the Romantic Reform of Literature. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Blackwood’s Magazine, 1817-1825, Vol. 2 editor (6 Vols), London: Pickering and Chatto, 2006.
"Bloodless Revolution and the Form of the Novel." Novel: A Forum on Fiction, 37.1 (Spring 2004).
Reviews
European Romantic Review, Romanticism, Romantic Circles.
Recent and Upcoming Presentations
“Novels and Tales: a Theory of Diversity,” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Toronto, CA, August 2008.
“Romanticism, Genre, and the ‘Intermixing’ of Enlightenment,” Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, UK, April 2008.
“Quantifying Tales: Numbers, Genre, 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.