Oliver Goldsmith: The Critical Heritage

ISBN-13: 9780415867863 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 412 str.

G. S. Rousseau

Opis

First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Spis treści

Introduction; Part 1 The Traveller, or a Prospect of Society; Chapter 1 Dr Johnson, Critical Review; Chapter 2 Unsigned notice, Gentleman’s Magazine; Chapter 3 Unsigned notice, London Chronicle; Chapter 4 John Langhorne, Monthly Review; Part 2 The Vicar Of Wakefield; Chapter 5 Unsigned notice, Monthly Review; Chapter 6 Unsigned review, Critical Review; Chapter 7 Mme Riccoboni in a letter to David Garrick on the plot of The Vicar of Wakefield; Chapter 8 Lady Sarah Pennington, An Unfortunate Mother’s Advice to Her Absent Daughters; Chapter 9 Fanny Burney compares The Vicar of Wakefield with other sentimental novels, in her early diary; Chapter 10 Two brief estimates of Goldsmith’s novel; Chapter 11 Mrs Jane West commenting on ‘criminal conversation’ in The Vicar of Wakefield, in Letters to a Young Lady: in which the duties and characters of women are considered …; Chapter 12 Edward Mangin compares Goldsmith and Richardson as novelists, in An Essay on Light Reading; Chapter 13 Byron comments on Friedrich von Schlegel’s estimate of The Vicar of Wakefield; Chapter 14 George Eliot on story telling and narrative art in The Vicar of Wakefield, in Essays and Leaves from a Notebook; Chapter 15 Henry James’s introduction to The Vicar of Wakefield; Part 3 The Good Natured Man; Chapter 16 Two early reviews of The Good Natured Man; Chapter 17 George Daniel on The Good Natured Man, in an edition of the British Theatre published by John Cumberland in 48 vols; Part 4 The Deserted Village; Chapter 18 Unsigned review, Critical Review; Chapter 19 John Hawkesworth’s review, Monthly Review; Chapter 20 An anonymous and ‘imPart ial review,’ London Magazine; Chapter 21 Anthony King’s poem ‘The Frequented Village,’ a poetic statement about The Deserted Village; Chapter 22 Corbyn Morris’s rhapsodic verses ‘On Reading Dr. Goldsmith’s Poem, the Deserted Village,’ published in The New Foundling Hospital for Wit; Chapter 23 Edmund Burke on Goldsmith’s pastoral images, in a letter to Richard Shack

O autorze

G. S. Rousseau