Enlightenment in Ruins : The Geographies of Oliver Goldsmith Hardback
by Michael Griffin
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Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774) moved between the genres and geographies of enlightenment writing with considerable dexterity.
As a consequence he has been characterized as a passive purveyor of enlightenment thought, a hack, a harried translator of the French enlightenment for an English audience, an ideological lackey, and a subtle ironist.
In poetry, he is either a compliant pastoralist or an engaged social critic.
Yet Goldsmith’s career is as complex and as contradictory as the enlightenment currents across which he wrote, and there is in Goldsmith’s oeuvre a set of themes—including his opposition to the new imperialism and to glibly declared principles of liberty—which this book addresses as a manifestation of his Irishness.
Michael Griffin places Goldsmith in two contexts: one is the intellectual and political culture in which he worked as a professional author living in London; the other is that of his nationality and his as yet unstudied Jacobite politics.
Enlightenment in Ruins thereby reveals a body of work that is compellingly marked by tensions and transits between Irishness and Englishness, between poetic and professional imperatives, and between cultural and scientific spheres.
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- Pages:226 pages
- Publisher:Bucknell University Press
- Publication Date:15/08/2013
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:226 pages
- Publisher:Bucknell University Press
- Publication Date:15/08/2013
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- ISBN:9781611485059
