..., as I show through an analysis of Oliver Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield , Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford , and Charles Dickens's Old Curiosity Shop , reading them on their own terms allows us to perceive an alternative view of family and home to that produced by the novel in its hegemonic form. © 2009...

... religious-political currents, I argue that the novel's marriage plot emerged as both a cultural agent of the Erastian state and an expression of a highly labile, conservative, patriot opposition. It did so, therefore, as an English marriage plot which placed Anglican ritual and relations between vicars...

..., 1999 . Freud , Sigmund . Civilization and Its Discontents . Ed. James Strachey. and trans. James Strachey. New York: Norton, 1961 . Goldsmith , Oliver . The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale Supposed to Be Written by Himself . Ed. Arthur Friedman. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1981 . Greimas...

...-American war has just ended, and Father Ferrand, an Irish bishop of French ancestry, has come to Rome from America to make the case for Jean Marie Latour, one of his parish priests, to become the vicar apostolic of the newly created Vicarate of New Mexico. He pleads with several elegant and cul...

... for a novelist’s satire. Uncle Toby from Tristram Shandy belongs to this category, as do Thwackum and Square from Tom Jones and Squire Thornhill from The Vicar of Wakefield. Satire of this nature takes on a conservative quality, since by ridiculing discourses that in another context might prove alien- ating...

..., present a Miss Bates who had discerned the vicar's social-climbing ambition, Emma's prior in- terest in the vicar as a potential suitor for her protege Harriet, and Harriet's un- requited love. Moreover, Miss Bates shows an awareness of the fine distinctions in rank lost to all three participants...

... at an earlier historical moment) the people of Shepperton are gathered at the cemetery to pay tribute to their Vicar. This time it is the cler- gyman hmself who has died, an event of broad significance due to Mr. Gilfil's universal popularity. But whlle the loss is felt individually throughout the com...

... II: 380 The Private Memoirs and Confessions of Caleb Williams, II: 380 a Justified Sinner, I: 343; II: 380 Goldsmith, Oliver homoerotic plot, II: 497 The Vicar of Wakefield, II: 410...

... ruere being submitted without delay to the English Press. 171 the meantime he was asked to apply himself to tlie second lesson arzd write pieces orr Giry Fnwkes Nzglzt, Some Villnge Superstition, Tlze Romance of Place-Names ("Yortr vicar is likely to prove a rnirze ofcolot~r+il information...

... NOVEL I SPRING 2001 Mandeville (1763), Walpole's Castle of Otranto (1764), Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Mackenzie's Man of Feeling (1771) and Juliet de RoubignC (1777), Smollett's Humphry Clinker (1771), Graves's Spiritual Quixote (1773), Reeve's Old English Baron (1778), Burney's...

... of a pair of lovers to distinguish between three kinds of vicarious thinking—three ways in which the brain might simulate a point of view in order to run through a hypothetical scenario. “First is the simple duplication of our person (the replacement by the vicar). It remains egocentric ; . . . (as when...

..., when there are no more stories to be told and nobody to tell or listen to them. In Woolf's words, “there is no end” to air, no limit to betweenness. Between the Acts ends with a premonition of air war—twelve airplanes in battle formation interrupt the vicar's banalities—but the quotation from...

... Martin's reading. As a "high farmer," he consumes the agricultural reports, as does Mr. Knightley; for both, information is money. Under Emma's quizzing, Harriet expresses her em- barrassment that although Robert Martin knows The Vicar of Wakefield, he has not yet read The Romance of the Forest...

... a vicar, a doctor, an innkeeper, and must fill and refill each of these posts. (A preoccupation with this need for institutional replaceability also governs the plots of Trollope and Oliphant's chronicles, each of which tracks clerical and political openings for positions that must be repeatedly filled...