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Oliver Goldsmith in Context, Hardback Book

Oliver Goldsmith in Context Hardback

Edited by Michael (University of Limerick) Griffin, David (University of Galway) O'Shaughnessy

Part of the Literature in Context series

Hardback

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Oliver Goldsmith has a claim to be the only eighteenth-century author who wrote canonical works in prose fiction, poetry, and drama.

An Irish writer working at the centre of the British and Irish Enlightenments, with all the rich complications of identity this entailed, he authored The Vicar of Wakefield, The Deserted Village, and She Stoops to Conquer, works that number among the greatest literary productions of the century.

He was also a major historian, biographer, journalist, and translator operating at the heart of literary London.

Through four sections covering Goldsmith's Life and Career; Social, Cultural, and Intellectual Contexts; Literary Contexts; and Critical Fortunes and Afterlives, this volume engages with a wide range of illuminating topics that will allow both new and experienced readers of Goldsmith to understand more deeply the impact he had on his times and the powerful influence he exerted on subsequent literary culture.

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  • Format:Hardback
  • Pages:345 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
  • Publisher:Cambridge University Press
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  • ISBN:9781316518915

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  • Format:Hardback
  • Pages:345 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
  • Publisher:Cambridge University Press
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  • ISBN:9781316518915

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