The Expedition of Humphry Clinker - An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism - 2nd ed

The text, based on the first edition, is accompanied by explanatory footnotes. "Backgrounds and Contexts" includes selections from Smollett's early poetry as well as non-fiction writing. "Criticism" presents the most important reviews of the book. "Contemporary Criticism" focuses on recent scholarship. A chronology and a bibliography are also included.

About the author

Evan Gottlieb is Associate Professor of English at Oregon State University. He is the author of Feeling British: Sympathy and National Identity in Scottish and English Writing, 1707–1832, Walter Scott and Contemporary Theory, and Romantic Globalism: British Literature and Modern World Order, 1750–1830. He is co-editor of Approaches to Teaching Scott’s Waverly Novels and Representing Place in British Literature and Culture, 1660–1830: From Local to Global. He is also a regular contributor to the Huffington Post books blog.

Summary

This Norton Critical Edition restores the full title to the 1771 novel and emphasises the growing recognition of Smollett as a major British author.

Product details

• Authors: Evan Gottlieb, T. Smollett, Tobias Smollett, Tobias George Smollett
• Assisted by: Evan Gottlieb (Editor), Evan (Oregon State University) Gottlieb (Editor)
• Publisher: Norton W W Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 12.02.2015
• EAN: 9780393936711
• ISBN: 978-0-393-93671-1
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 215 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Norton Critical Editions; Norton Critical Editions
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Classic fiction: general and literary, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form