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The Vicar of Wakefield.
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In the following excerpt, Foster discusses Goldsmith's views on morality and sentimentality as expressed in The Vicar of Wakefield.
Oliver Goldsmith (1730-74) was not such a strait-laced classi...
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In the following essay, Murray contends that ultimately The Vicar of Wakefield concerns the nature of authority and transformation.
In his Advertisement to The Vicar of Wakefield, Oliver Goldsmith dec...
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In the essay below, Prier argues that Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's novel Die Leiden des jungends Werther was influenced by Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield.
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In the essay below, Adelstein argues that the key to understanding The Vicar of Wakefield is recognizing the transformation of Primrose.
The overwhelming and continuous popularity of The Vicar of Wake...
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In the following essay, first published in 1967 and reprinted in 1987, Paulson argues that Goldsmith creates a new style of novel of manners in the first seventeen chapters of The Vicar of Wakefield.
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In the essay below, first published in 1974 and reprinted in 1987, Brissenden considers the role of sentimentality in The Vicar of Wakefield.
The Reverend Dr. Primrose, Goldsmith's Vicar of Wak...
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In the following excerpt, Lehmann explores Goldsmith's use of "Orientalized" interpretations of Job in The Vicar of Wakefield. The editors have included only those footnotes that ...
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In the essay below, Hilliard argues that The Vicar of Wakefield is a realistic account of fatherhood and an allegory about sin and redemption.
The Vicar's many sanguine remarks on matrimony...
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In the essay below, Jefferson argues that in The Vicar of Wakefield, Goldsmith created a form which transformed his writing weaknesses into strengths.
In the reassessment of authors that has taken pla...
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In the essay below, Taylor discusses the relation of Goldsmith's earlier work "The History of Miss Stanton" with The Vicar of Wakefield.
Recent studies of Oliver Goldsmith'...
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In the following excerpt, Dixon examines the literary devices Goldsmith employs in The Vicar of Wakefield.
As a book reviewer Goldsmith was necessarily a student of title pages. In one of his earliest...
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Critical Essay by James R. Foster
