Oliver Goldsmith, Historical Thinker and Writer

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-105
Author(s):  
YUHKI TAKEBAYASHI
Keyword(s):  
Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith

1888 ◽  
Vol s7-V (124) ◽  
pp. 368-368
Author(s):  
Jonathan Bouchier
Keyword(s):  
Oliver Goldsmith

Kelly vs. Goldsmith: the Bailiffs in The School for Wives

1978 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-186
Author(s):  
Oliver W. Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Large Measure ◽  
Oliver Goldsmith

Students of the eighteenth-century English theater are familiar with the bitter rivalry between Oliver Goldsmith and Hugh Kelly. The two had been friends until January 1768, when Kelly's False Delicacy and Goldsmith's The Good Natur'd Man opened within a week of each other. The Good Natur'd Man was moderately successful, but whatever satisfaction Goldsmith might otherwise have taken in this fact was marred by the overwhelming popularity of Kelly's comedy. To add to Goldsmith's discomfiture was the chagrin of having had one scene in his play hissed off the stage because of its low humor. In large measure, the reception given Goldsmith's first comedy influenced his intentions in his second: She Stoops to Conquer is an example of “laughing” comedy, deliberately set against the sentimental variety written by Kelly.

‘Shattering’ and ‘Violent’ Forces: Gender, Ecology, and Catastrophe in George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-57
Author(s):  
Barbara Barrow
Keyword(s):  
Female Body ◽  
Oliver Goldsmith ◽  
Human Presence ◽  
Charles Lyell ◽  
Natural Catastrophe ◽  
Ecological History ◽  
Georges Cuvier ◽  
Mill On The Floss ◽  
Planetary Processes

This article argues that George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss (1860) aligns natural catastrophe with the image of the disastrous female body in order to challenge contemporary geological readings of nature as a balanced, self-regulating domain. Both incorporating and revising the work of Charles Lyell, Oliver Goldsmith, and Georges Cuvier, Eliot emphasises the interconnectedness of human and planetary processes, feminises environmental catastrophe, and blends human and ecological history. She does so in order to write the human presence back into geological histories that tended to evacuate the human, and to invite readers to account for the effects their lifestyles and industries have upon the supposedly balanced and orderly processes of nature.

Some Sources of Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer

PMLA ◽  
1929 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 565-568
Author(s):  
Gertrude Van Arsdale Ingalls
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Oliver Goldsmith

Among nineteenth century critics it was the fashion to consider Oliver Goldsmith one of the most original of writers; and The Vicar and She Stoops to Conquer were always cited as examples of that originality. Modern scholarship, which has destroyed so many of the traditions concerning Goldsmith, has thus far left these two works intact.

Oliver goldsmith

1860 ◽  
Vol s2-X (246) ◽  
pp. 206-207
Author(s):  
A. De Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith

1888 ◽  
Vol s7-VI (133) ◽  
pp. 34-34
Author(s):  
A. H.
Keyword(s):  
Oliver Goldsmith
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