Humphry Clinker An Authoritative Text Contemporary Responses Criticism

A few obvious typographical errors have been corrected, but Smollett'screative misspellings in the letters of Tabitha Bramble and theinimitable Win Jenkins have been retained with all of their comicallyearthy overtones. "Contemporary Responses" to the controversial Smollett's last novel areprovided by a series of reviews that appeared on the English sceneimmediately after its publication. A letter from a friend to the authoron the novel's publication is also included. Criticism includes Sir Walter Scott's early-nineteenth-centuryassessment of the novel; modern essays by Lewis M. Knapp, ByronGassman, Mary Wagoner, William Park, Wolfgang Iser, John Sekora, andJohn F. Sena; and a bibliographical essay by Connie Capers Thorson. The volume also contains a selective Bibliography of works on Smollettand on Humphry Clinker in particular.Smollett, Tobias George is the author of 'Humphry Clinker An Authoritative Text Contemporary Responses Criticism', published 1983 under ISBN 9780393952834 and ISBN 0393952835.