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The Letters of Oliver Goldsmith
Oliver Goldsmith
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This first modern scholarly edition of the letters of Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) sets the author of The Vicar of Wakefield, The Deserted Village, and She Stoops to Conquer in a rich context, showing how Goldsmith's Irish identity was marked and complicated by cosmopolitan ambition. He was at the very heart of Grub Street culture and the Georgian theatre, and was a founding member of Dr Johnson's Literary Club; his circle included Edmund Burke, Joshua Reynolds, David Garrick, George Colman and Hester Piozzi. Containing a detailed introduction and extensive notes, this edition is essential to those wishing to know more about ... Read more
This first modern scholarly edition of the letters of Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) sets the author of The Vicar of Wakefield, The Deserted Village, and She Stoops to Conquer in a rich context, showing how Goldsmith's Irish identity was marked and complicated by cosmopolitan ambition. He was at the very heart of Grub Street culture and the Georgian theatre, and was a founding member of Dr Johnson's Literary Club; his circle included Edmund Burke, Joshua Reynolds, David Garrick, George Colman and Hester Piozzi. Containing a detailed introduction and extensive notes, this edition is essential to those wishing to know more about ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107093539
SKU
V9781107093539
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99-16
About Oliver Goldsmith
Michael Griffin is a senior lecturer in English Literature at the University of Limerick. He is the author of Enlightenment in Ruins: The Geographies of Oliver Goldsmith (2013). He has also edited The Selected Writings of Thomas Dermody (2012), and The Collected Works of Laurence Whyte (2016). David O'Shaughnessy is an associate professor in English at Trinity College Dublin. He ... Read more
Reviews for The Letters of Oliver Goldsmith
'The editors, Michael Griffin and David O'Shaugnessy, have undertaken considerable original research in updating and adding to Katherine Balderston's 1928 Cambridge University Press collection of Goldsmith Letters. Like Balderston before them, Griffin and O'Shaugnessy confront a slender body of surviving letters but build a fascinating story from what remains.' Claire Connolly, The Irish Times 'The editors, Michael Griffin and ... Read more