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Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (1): 56–75.
Published: 01 January 2006
...James Watt Duke University Press 2006
Goldsmith’s Cosmopolitanism
James Watt
University of York
Although imaginary travelers and voyages date back at least as far as the
work of Lucian...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (1): 183–211.
Published: 01 January 2015
... to gain political patronage in the 1780s. O’Bryen, a bankrupt Irish immigrant in 1780, became a close confidante and trusted political adviser to Charles James Fox after the Haymarket performance of O-Bryen’s play, A Friend in Need Is a Friend Indeed (1783). Drawing on both Goldsmith’s The Good Natur’d...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (1): 28–57.
Published: 01 January 2018
... penned, in The Scottish Village; or Pitcairne Green, an alter-
native poetic vision to Oliver Goldsmith’s The Deserted Village (1773). While
she, as author, “almost started a tear,” her poet, the district’s “Genius,”
forbids the mourning “Sage” to dwell on the “vacant Wild,” asking him
instead...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (2): 14–28.
Published: 01 April 2008
... children’s story often attributed to Goldsmith.9 But he alludes most to
The Vicar of Wakefield(1766): he repeatedly quotes “from the blue bed to the
brown”, as well as “Shakespeare and the musical glasses.”10
James’s taste for Goldsmith has been rather obscured by the strange
omission, from...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 59–72.
Published: 01 April 2017
... further works of English history, written
in a lighter style, and without all the scholarly apparatus that one finds in
Macaulay, suggesting that works such as these were those Brissot deemed
more appropriate for the French; her translation of Oliver Goldsmith’s A
History of England in a series...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (1): 103–107.
Published: 01 January 2000
... form” in Goldsmith’s
Traveller.5 In the neoclassical view, the alien medium of the stone is all but
absorbed into the verisimilitude of flesh, whereas from the countervailing
Romantic vantage, it seems to qualify and even counteract the illusion. In
The Prelude III Wordsworth sees the statue...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 154–170.
Published: 01 April 2017
... and other less-
formal borrowing from wealthier relatives and friends.24 Of the very small
number of books we know her to have possessed, the chief scientific work is
Oliver Goldsmith’s eight-volume History of the Earth and Animated Nature,
first published in 1774. Goldsmith, like Charlotte Smith...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (3): 37–64.
Published: 01 September 2009
..., and,
furthermore, suits the newly admitted types of knowledge; ten articles refer
to him. He appears as a character in the biographies of four of his liter-
ary acquaintances: Churchill, Garrick, Goldsmith, and Savage. His work
is mentioned in the articles “Shakespeare” and “Printing,” and under...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (2): 1–23.
Published: 01 April 2021
... replaced it, as Linda Colley, Gerald Newman, and others have shown. The Grand Tour had always been tied to a cosmopolitan ideal; one of its original purposes was to produce men with similar international experiences and with connections across the Con- tinent. As Sarah Goldsmith puts it, The Grand Tour...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 1–32.
Published: 01 September 2015
...
Goldsmith, who is endeavouring to carve the contents of his plate.
His stolid features do not express anything approaching to rapturous
appreciation of the accomplished blue-stocking’s extraordinary flow of
bewitching conversation. (1:160)
Thomas Rowlandson’s Vauxhall Gardens...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 105–121.
Published: 01 April 2017
... rather than with
the active demonstration of public virtue, justifying as well as limiting his
political agency.10 In Oliver Goldsmith’s The Citizen of the World (1760–61),
for instance, an “honest cobler” traverses the worlds of polite and plebeian
culture, appearing as a philosopher...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (2): 53–84.
Published: 01 April 2013
... that developed from the early 1780s.
Illustrated Pocket Diaries and the Commodification of Culture 5 5
While the Stationers’ Company had monopolized the publishing of
almanacs from 1603 and issued a large variety of almanacs, including,
among dozens of others, Goldsmith’s Pocket Almanac, Vox...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (1): 41–65.
Published: 01 January 2015
... with the goldsmith who has given him what he believes to
be a good price for his spoon. After thanking this goldsmith profusely, the
Irishman adds that in future, “I will come to dy Shop mee shelf, indeed; and, bee
Chreesht, I will tell my Country-mans where dy Shop ish; for, Deevil tauke me,
dee beesht...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (1): 103–130.
Published: 01 January 2015
...
Attorney 2 Bookseller 3
Goldsmith 2 Butcher 4
Jeweler 2 Cabinet Maker 10
Merchant 2 Clerk 1
Silversmith 4 Clock/Watchmaker 11
Surgeon...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (3): 63–84.
Published: 01 September 2023
... overlaps in his system and makes it difficult to identify certain birds. Other writers for the Lady's Magazine published only one or two discrete essays that discussed individual species for the purpose of, in Oliver Goldsmith's words, delivering “polite education” and “entertainment,” thereby giving...
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Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (1): 130–134.
Published: 01 January 2023
... the temporal and structural contradictions behind capital's logic of infinite and compounding growth.” Her readings advance Frances Burney, Oliver Goldsmith, Sarah Scott, and Frances Brooke not merely as witnesses to a commercial economy reconstituting itself to wring profit from exchange, but also as plotters...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (2): 115–119.
Published: 01 April 2014
....
Part 1, entitled “Pseudoethnographies,” examines texts and translations
by Giovanni Paolo Marana, Behn, Antoine Galland, Defoe, Montesquieu,
Goldsmith, and Elizabeth Hamilton. The ideas of these two chapters, and
those that follow, are plentiful and sophisticated, but generally Aravamudan...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (3): 20–56.
Published: 01 September 2017
... English comedy was gooey sentimen-
tal muck that arose in reaction against harshly satiric but often immoral
“Restoration comedy” was partly inspired by Goldsmith’s little “Essay on
the Theatre” (1772), published as an anticipatory puff for his She Stoops to
Conquer (1773). It is a rhetorically...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 197–212.
Published: 01 September 2021
... Goldsmith, Poems for Young Ladies offers in a very small compass, the very flower of our poetry, and that kind adapted to the sex supposed to be its readers. Poetry is an art, which no young lady can, or ought to be wholly ignorant of. The pleasure which it gives, and indeed the necessity of knowing...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (1): 131–154.
Published: 01 January 2015
.... P. Pittion (Dublin: Glendale, 1987), 323–26.
There was a significant Huguenot presence in the Dublin goldsmiths, but, perhaps
surprisingly, none of the known goldsmiths is on the Irish investors’ list. See Jessica
Cunningham, “Dublin’s Huguenot Goldsmiths, 1690–1750: Assimilation...
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