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"Tobias Smollett After 300 Years: Life, Writing, Reputation"
di Richard J. Jones (edited by) Clemson University Press in association with Liverpool University Press , 2023 https://libraries.clemson.edu/press/books/tobias-smollett-after-300-years/ It contains the chapter: S. Pupo, "Smollett, Hume, and the Project of a Politically Skeptical National History" (pp. 127-140) that focuses on the complex history of the editorial project of the "History of England" as a reconstruction of national history and its two undisputed protagonists: David Hume and Tobias Smollett. They were rival historians united by mutual intellectual esteem and a single interest: the defense of pure truth, liberated from dogmatism, factionalism, ideological zeal, and the Whiggism typical of their time. !is intellectual autonomy was the secret of their public success and the main reason for their little-explored friendship. Historiography has almost always emphasized their ruthless competition; even so, Smollett wrote very generous reviews of Hume’s works and Hume responded with words of sympathy. Both of these Scottish authors, living in the same cultural context, prove to be the unsurpassed interpreters of a disenchanted and skeptical account of history.
