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 Goldsmith the man and the writer, and provides a rich and suggestive nexus for understanding the cultural cross-currents of the literary Enlightenment in eighteenth-century London.
| ISBN: | 9781107093539 |
| Publication date: | 26th July 2018 |
| Author: | Oliver Goldsmith |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 232 pages |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: general Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Diaries, letters and journals |