A new "Backgrounds and Contexts" section includes selections from Smollett's popular early poetry as well as important later nonfiction writing on history and the novel and the Anglo-Scottish Union, among others "Criticism" is divided into two sections and presents the most important reviews and scholarly assessments ofThe Expedition of Humphry Clinker. "Early Reviews and Criticism" collects four major reviews from 1771 along with Sir Walter Scott's 1821 preface to the novel. "Contemporary Criticism" focuses on recent scholarship, with its emphasis on Smollett's connection and...