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ENLIGHTENMENT IN RUINS
THE GEOGRAPHIES OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH |
| By: |
Michael Griffin |
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| ISBN 10: |
1611486890 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781611486896 |
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| Publisher: |
BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 April, 2015 |
| Series: |
Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850 |
| Pages: |
226 |
| Description: |
Crossing disciplinary boundaries between eighteenth-century studies and Irish studies, this book explores the geographies and politics of Oliver Goldsmith's complex and productive negotiation of the London literary marketplace during the enlightenment. |
| Synopsis: |
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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3 Illustrations, black and white |
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US |
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Bucknell University Press |
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