Introduction 1
Ⅰ．Criticism of Humphry Clinker 1
Ⅱ．Genre Analysis and Humphry Clinker 10
Ⅲ．Criticism of Travel Narrative in Humphry Clinker 13
Ⅳ．Layout of the Book 17
Part Ⅰ Travel Narrative and Humphry Clinker as a Fictional Travel NarrativeChapter One Features of Travel Narrative 21
1.1 Nonfiction 25
1.2 The First-person Narration and the Narrator 40
Chapter Two Fiction and Humphry Clinker as a Fictional Work 55
2.1 Conventions and Imagination 56
2.2 Fictional Elements 62
2.3 Humphry Clinker as a Fictional Work 71
2.3.1 Multiple Points of View 72
2.3.2 Parallel Development 77
2.3.3 Mixed Characterization 84
Part Ⅱ Features of Travel Narrative Transformed in Humphry Clinker 94
Chapter Three Travel Topics and Plot of Thought 94
Chapter Four Narrators'Roles and the Fictionalizing Paradigm 108
4.1 Narrators'Switching Roles 108
4.2 Narrators as Travel Reporters 125
Chapter Five Travel Narrative and the Implied Author 150
5.1 "To Inform"Transformed into"To Instruct" 150
5.2 The Moral Dimension of Travel Narrative 158
Conclusion 170
Works Cited 174