Goldsmith as JournalistFairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1993 - 205 páginas "Indeed, the journalistic achievements of Oliver Goldsmith invite a reconsideration of the man doomed for so many years to play "Doctor Minor" to Johnson's "Doctor Major." Long before he established a reputation as the author of The Vicar of Wakefield, She Stoops to Conquer, and The Deserted Village, Goldsmith was establishing his unique journalistic voice - a voice incredibly diverse, if also frequently self-contradictory. There is no doubt that Goldsmith was something of a controversial figure - working for both of London's monthly book review journals while they were engaged in an ongoing, venomous, and well-publicized dispute. But it is important to remember that he was respected, too. He did serve, after all, as principal contributor to several of London's most successful newspapers and magazine miscellanies. In this capacity, his career intersected with the careers of Arthur Murphy, John Newbery, David Hume, Thomas Gray, Edmund Burke, and the most prominent booksellers, authors, and editors of the period." "As interest in eighteenth-century English journalism continues to accelerate, the critical reputation of Oliver Goldsmith which has been dwindling for years may receive an important boost. Scholars now have a wealth of primary and critical material from which to construct a contextual framework for understanding literary, social, and political developments in eighteenth-century England. Perhaps this wealth of information will lead them to reassess the man who not only exemplified, but also consistently commented on, the state of the press in "High Georgian" England."--BOOK JACKET. |
Índice
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Goldsmiths Hiring and Its Periodical Contexts | 28 |
The True Critic | 40 |
In the Rival Camp | 57 |
The Weekly Historian | 74 |
The Philanthropic Bookseller Goldsmiths Work for Newbery | 89 |
Defining a Self The Essayist and His Readers | 104 |
Arrant Tories and Soure Whigs The Political Context of Goldsmiths Journalism | 126 |
Paternoster Row Is Not Parnassus | 150 |
Notes | 169 |
Select Bibliography | 188 |
Index | 199 |
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Página 41 - THE works of fiction, with which the present generation seems more particularly delighted, are such as exhibit life in its true state, diversified only by accidents that daily happen in the world, and influenced by passions and qualities which are really to be found in conversing with mankind.
Página 167 - His mind resembled a fertile, but thin soil. There was a quick, but not a strong vegetation, of whatever chanced to be thrown upon it. No deep root could be struck. The oak of the forest did not grow there ; but the elegant shrubbery and the fragrant parterre appeared in gay succession.
Página 59 - There will come a day, no doubt it will — I beg you may live a couple of hundred years longer, only to see the day — when the Scaligers and Daciers will vindicate my character, give learned editions of my labours, and bless the times with copious comments on the text.
Página 59 - Yet, upon deliberation, whatever airs I give myself on this side of the water, my dignity, I fancy, would be evaporated before I reached the other. I know you have in Ireland a .very indifferent idea of a man who writes for bread, though Swift and Steele did so in the earliest part of their lives.
Página 150 - Distress drove Goldsmith upon undertakings neither congenial with his studies nor worthy of his talents. I remember him when, in his chambers in the Temple, he showed me the beginning of his ' Animated Nature;' it was with a sigh, such as genius draws when hard necessity diverts it from its bent to drudge for bread, and talk of birds, and beasts, and creeping things, which Pidock's showman would have done as well.
Página 102 - A man of letters at present, whose works are valuable, is perfectly sensible of their value. Every polite member of the community by buying what he writes, contributes to reward him. The ridicule therefore of living in a garret, might have been wit in the last age, but continues such no longer, because no longer true. A writer of real merit now may easily be rich if his heart be set only on fortune : and for those who have no merit, it is but fit that such should remain in merited obscurity.
Página 133 - An Englishman is taught to love his king as his friend, but to acknowledge no other master than the laws which himself has contributed to enact. He despises those nations, who, that one may be free, are all content to be slaves; who first lift a tyrant into terror, and then shrink under his power as if delegated from Heaven. Liberty...
Página 102 - At present the few poets of England no longer depend on the great for subsistence, they have now no other patrons but the public, and the public, collectively considered, is a good and a generous master.
Página 121 - Dr. Goldsmith is one of the first men we now have as an author, and he is a very worthy man too. He has been loose in his principles, but he is coming right.
Página 47 - The learned on this side the Alps have long laboured at the antiquities of Greece and Rome, but almost totally neglected their own ; like conquerors who, while they have made inroads into the territories of their neighbours, have left their own natural dominions to desolation.
