Professor Yount pursues four main goals: to place the critical materials she has gathered here and reprinted in their immediate historical contexts; to offer insight into works conceived at a time when the discipline of English studies as we know it was in its earliest stages of development; to illuminate the significance of responses to Clarissa that seem outdated or naive by today's scholarly standards; and to identify recurrent themes, highlighting the novel's ongoing and often controversial appeal in the first half of the twentieth century. These volumes reprint key commentaries and provide an introduction to the materials reprinted. They also offer scholarly background to these and discuss others omitted for reasons of space. Contents Vol. 2: Clarissa's Reception, 1900-1950 Preface. Editorial Principles. Note on the Text. Clarissa's Reception, 1900-1914: Responses Before the Great War. Clarissa's Reception, 1915-1930: The Post-War Response. Clarissa's Reception, 1931-1944: Contending Voices Before and During World War II. Clarissa's Reception, 1945-1950: World War II and Beyond. Index.
