Oliver Goldsmith : the critical heritage
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Oliver Goldsmith : the critical heritage
(The critical heritage series)
Routledge, 1995
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First published in 1974
Bibliography: p. 359
Includes indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to reaad the material themselves.
Table of Contents
- 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
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