Jerry C. BeasleyJERRY C. BEASLEY is professor emeritus and former department chair of English at the University of Delaware in Newark. He is the author of Novels of the 1740s and editor of Smollett's The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom. From 1987 o 1997 he served as general editor of the Georgia Edition of the Works of Tobias Smollett series. Read More Read Less