Enlightenment in Ruins
Subtitle: The Geographies of Oliver Goldsmith
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated; Bucknell University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9781611485059
Subjects: Goldsmith, oliver, 1730?-1774; Authors, irish; Irish literature, history and criticism; London (england), intellectual life
Description: Crossing disciplinary boundaries between eighteenth-century studies and Irish studies, this book explores the geographies and politics of Oliver Goldsmith's complex and productive negotiation of the London literary marketplace during the enlightenment. This study reveals a body of work that is compellingly marked by tensions and transits between Irishness and Englishness, between poetic and professional imperatives, between cultural and scientific spheres.