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Enlightenment in Ruins
- The Geographies of Oliver Goldsmith
Engelsk Hardback
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- The Geographies of Oliver Goldsmith
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Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774) moved between the genres and geographies of enlightenment writing with considerable dexterity. As a consequence he has been characterized as a passive purveyor of enlightenment thought, a hack, a harried translator of the French enlightenment for an English audience, an ideological lackey, and a subtle ironist. In poetry, he is either a compliant pastoralist or an engaged social critic. Yet Goldsmith’s career is as complex and as contradictory as the enlightenment currents across which he wrote, and there is in Goldsmith’s oeuvre a set of themes—including his opposition to the new imperialism and to glibly declared principles of liberty—which this book addresses as a manifestation of his Irishness. Michael Griffin places Goldsmith in two contexts: one is the intellectual and political culture in which he worked as a professional author living in London; the other is that of his nationality and his as yet unstudied Jacobite politics. Enlightenment in Ruins thereby reveals a body of work that is compellingly marked by tensions and transits between Irishness and Englishness, between poetic and professional imperatives, and between cultural and scientific spheres.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
226
ISBN-13:
9781611485059
Indbinding:
Hardback
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ISBN-10:
1611485053
Udg. Dato:
15 aug 2013
Længde:
27mm
Bredde:
239mm
Højde:
162mm
Forlag:
Bucknell University Press
Oplagsdato:
15 aug 2013
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