The Collected Letters of Oliver Goldsmith
The Collected Letters of Oliver Goldsmith

Author: Katharine C. Balderston

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-04-02

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 1107497582

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Originally published in 1928, this book contains a collection of letters by the playwright and author Oliver Goldmith, author of She Stoops to Conquer and The Vicar of Wakefield, written between 1752 and 1774. Balderston includes letters which only exist in a fragmentary form, and includes doubtful and forged letters in appendices at the end. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Goldsmith's life and work.

English Literature, Volume 1
English Literature, Volume 1

Author: Louis A. Landa

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2015-12-08

Total Pages: 582

ISBN-13: 1400877326

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This is the first of two volumes which will make available in convenient form the annual bibliographies of 18th century scholarship published for the past 25 years in the Philological Quarterly. Volume 1 includes the years 1926-1938. By means of lithography the original issues are exactly reproduced with retention of all critical annotations. Originally published in 1950. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Goldsmith
Goldsmith

Author: E. Mikhail

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1993-12-15

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1349230936

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Community and Solitude
Community and Solitude

Author: Anthony W. Lee

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2019-04-22

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1684480248

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Samuel Johnson’s life was situated within a rich social and intellectual community of friendships—and antagonisms. Community and Solitude is a collection of ten essays that explore relationships between Johnson and several of his main contemporaries—including James Boswell, Edmund Burke, Frances Burney, Robert Chambers, Oliver Goldsmith, Bennet Langton, Arthur Murphy, Richard Savage, Anna Seward, and Thomas Warton—and analyzes some of the literary productions emanating from the pressures within those relationships. In their detailed and careful examination of particular works situated within complex social and personal contexts, the essays in this volume offer a “thick” and illuminating description of Johnson’s world that also engages with larger cultural and aesthetic issues, such as intertextuality, literary celebrity, narrative, the nature of criticism, race, slavery, and sensibility. Contributors: Christopher Catanese, James Caudle, Marilyn Francus, Christine Jackson-Holzberg, Claudia Thomas Kairoff, Elizabeth Lambert, Anthony W. Lee, James E. May, John Radner, and Lance Wilcox. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

The Vicar of Wakefield
The Vicar of Wakefield

Author: Oliver Goldsmith

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780192839404

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A vicar and his charming, if vain, family fall victim to undeserved misfortune in this eighteenth-century classic.

A Careful Longing
A Careful Longing

Author: Aaron Santesso

Publisher: University of Delaware Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 9780874139457

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This book examines the emergence of a new genre during the eighteenth century: the nostalgia poem. This genre is best understood by reconceiving the premises of nostalgia itself, examining it as first and foremost a mode of idealization rather than a longing for the past. From the poems that make up this genre, we have derived many of our modern ideas and images of nostalgia. In tracing the history of the nostalgia poem, this book also traces a pattern of tropic change, in which a new genre is built around tropes extracted from the dying genres. This new genre then begins producing its own tropes; in the case of the nostalgia poem, these include idealized school days and ruined villages. As these tropes become overly familiar, the nostalgia poem genre itself begins to fall apart. This book reevaluates poems ranging from Dryden's Hastings elegy to Crabbe's The Village, showing how works as varied as Gray's Eton College Ode, Macpherson's forged epics, and Goldsmith's The Deserted Village are all part of a doomed literary experiment - an experiment that has nevertheless determined the course of modern nostalgic thought.