Oliver Goldsmith : The Critical Heritage

ISBN-13: 9780415134378 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 412 str.

George S. Rousseau; G. S. Rousseau

Opis

This series gathers together a body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The selected sources range from important essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects.

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