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Book The Citizen of the World

Download or read book The Citizen of the World written by Oliver Goldsmith and published by . This book was released on 1774 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Citizen of the World  Or Letters from a Chinese Philosopher  Etc

Download or read book The Citizen of the World Or Letters from a Chinese Philosopher Etc written by Oliver Goldsmith and published by . This book was released on 1794 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Citizen of the World

Download or read book The Citizen of the World written by Oliver Goldsmith and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Vicar of Wakefield

    Book Details:
  • Author : Oliver Goldsmith
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1820
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 250 pages

Download or read book The Vicar of Wakefield written by Oliver Goldsmith and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Brothers of the Quill

Download or read book Brothers of the Quill written by Norma Clarke and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oliver Goldsmith arrived in England in 1756 a penniless Irishman. He toiled for years in the anonymity of Grub Street—already a synonym for impoverished hack writers—before he became one of literary London’s most celebrated authors. Norma Clarke tells the extraordinary story of this destitute scribbler turned gentleman of letters as it unfolds in the early days of commercial publishing, when writers’ livelihoods came to depend on the reading public, not aristocratic patrons. Clarke examines a network of writers radiating outward from Goldsmith: the famous and celebrated authors of Dr. Johnson’s “Club” and those far less fortunate “brothers of the quill” trapped in Grub Street. Clarke emphasizes Goldsmith’s sense of himself as an Irishman, showing that many of his early literary acquaintances were Irish émigrés: Samuel Derrick, John Pilkington, Paul Hiffernan, and Edward Purdon. These writers tutored Goldsmith in the ways of Grub Street, and their influence on his development has not previously been explored. Also Irish was the patron he acquired after 1764, Robert Nugent, Lord Clare. Clarke places Goldsmith in the tradition of Anglo-Irish satirists beginning with Jonathan Swift. He transmuted troubling truths about the British Empire into forms of fable and nostalgia whose undertow of Irish indignation remains perceptible, if just barely, beneath an equanimous English surface. To read Brothers of the Quill is to be taken by the hand into the darker corners of eighteenth-century Grub Street, and to laugh and cry at the absurdities of the writing life.

Book The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith

Download or read book The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith written by Oliver Goldsmith and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Enquiry Into the Present State of Polite Learning in Europe

Download or read book An Enquiry Into the Present State of Polite Learning in Europe written by Oliver Goldsmith and published by . This book was released on 1759 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Peopling the World

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  • Author : Charlotte Sussman
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2020-04-24
  • ISBN : 0812252020
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book Peopling the World written by Charlotte Sussman and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2020-04-24 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling study of views about population and demographic mobility in the British long eighteenth century In John Milton's Paradise Lost of 1667, Adam and Eve are promised they will produce a "race to fill the world," a thought that consoles them even after the trauma of the fall. By 1798, the idea that the world would one day be entirely filled by people had become, in Thomas Malthus's hands, a nightmarish vision. In Peopling the World, Charlotte Sussman asks how and why this shift took place. How did Britain's understanding of the value of reproduction, the vacancy of the planet, and the necessity of moving people around to fill its empty spaces change? Sussman addresses these questions through readings of texts by Malthus, Milton, Swift, Defoe, Goldsmith, Sir Walter Scott, Mary Shelley, and others, and by placing these authors in the context of debates about scientific innovation, emigration, cultural memory, and colonial settlement. Sussman argues that a shift in thinking about population and mobility occurred in the third quarter of the eighteenth century. Before that point, both political and literary texts were preoccupied with "useless" populations that could be made useful by being dispersed over Britain's domestic and colonial territories; after 1760, a concern with the depopulation caused by emigration began to take hold. She explains this change in terms of the interrelated developments of a labor theory of value, a new idea of national identity after the collapse of Britain's American empire, and a move from thinking of reproduction as a national resource to thinking of it as an individual choice. She places Malthus at the end of this history because he so decisively moved thinking about population away from a worldview in which there was always more space to be filled and toward the temporal inevitability of the whole world filling up with people.

Book The Works of Oliver Goldsmith

Download or read book The Works of Oliver Goldsmith written by Oliver Goldsmith and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith

Download or read book The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith written by Oliver Goldsmith and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cognitive Capitalism

Download or read book Cognitive Capitalism written by Yann Moulier-Boutang and published by Polity. This book was released on 2011 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that we are undergoing a transition from industrial capitalism to a new form of capitalism - what the author calls & lsquo; cognitive capitalism & rsquo;

Book In Hoffa s Shadow

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jack Goldsmith
  • Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Release : 2019-09-24
  • ISBN : 0374712492
  • Pages : 255 pages

Download or read book In Hoffa s Shadow written by Jack Goldsmith and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Irishman is great art . . . but it is not, as we know, great history . . . Frank Sheeran . . . surely didn’t kill Hoffa . . . But who pulled the trigger? . . . For some of the real story, and for a great American tale in itself, you want to go to Jack Goldsmith’s book, In Hoffa’s Shadow.” —Peggy Noonan, The Wall Street Journal "In Hoffa’s Shadow is compulsively readable, deeply affecting, and truly groundbreaking in its re-examination of the Hoffa case . . . a monumental achievement." —James Rosen, The Wall Street Journal As a young man, Jack Goldsmith revered his stepfather, longtime Jimmy Hoffa associate Chuckie O’Brien. But as he grew older and pursued a career in law and government, he came to doubt and distance himself from the man long suspected by the FBI of perpetrating Hoffa’s disappearance on behalf of the mob. It was only years later, when Goldsmith was serving as assistant attorney general in the George W. Bush administration and questioning its misuse of surveillance and other powers, that he began to reconsider his stepfather, and to understand Hoffa’s true legacy. In Hoffa’s Shadow tells the moving story of how Goldsmith reunited with the stepfather he’d disowned and then set out to unravel one of the twentieth century’s most persistent mysteries and Chuckie’s role in it. Along the way, Goldsmith explores Hoffa’s rise and fall and why the golden age of blue-collar America came to an end, while also casting new light on the century-old surveillance state, the architects of Hoffa’s disappearance, and the heartrending complexities of love and loyalty.

Book Listening Publics

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kate Lacey
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2013-05-03
  • ISBN : 0745665209
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book Listening Publics written by Kate Lacey and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-05-03 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In focusing on the practices, politics and ethics of listening, this wide-ranging book offers an important new perspective on questions of media audiences, publics and citizenship. Listening is central to modern communication, politics and experience, but is commonly overlooked and underestimated in a culture fascinated by the spectacle and the politics of voice. Listening Publics restores listening to media history and to theories of the public sphere. In so doing it opens up profound questions for our understanding of mediated experience, public participation and civic engagement. Taking a cross-national and interdisciplinary approach, the book explores how listening publics have been constituted in relation to successive media technologies from the invention of writing to the digital age. It asks how new practices of listening associated with sound and audiovisual media transform a public world forged in the age of print. Through detailed histories and sophisticated theoretical analysis, Listening Publics demonstrates the embodied and critical activity of listening to be a rich concept with which to rethink the practices, politics and ethics of media communication.

Book The Good natured Man

    Book Details:
  • Author : Oliver Goldsmith
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1889
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book The Good natured Man written by Oliver Goldsmith and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith

Download or read book The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith written by Oliver Goldsmith and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book China and the Writing of English Literary Modernity  1690   1770

Download or read book China and the Writing of English Literary Modernity 1690 1770 written by Eun Kyung Min and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that eighteenth-century literature defined itself as 'English' and 'modern' by engaging with debates about Chinese history and culture.

Book She Stoops to Conquer and Other Comedies

Download or read book She Stoops to Conquer and Other Comedies written by Nigel Wood and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Modern Husband * The Clandestine Marriage * She Stoops to Conquer * Wild Oats This edition brings together four eighteenth-century comedies that illustrate the full variety of the century's drama. Fielding's The Modern Husband , written before the 1737 Licensing Act that restricted political and social comment, depicts wife-pandering and widespread social corruption. InGarrick and Colman's The Clandestine Marriage two lovers marry in defiance of parental wishes and rue the consequences. She Stoops to Conquer explores the comic and not-so-comic consequences of mistaken identity, and in Wild Oats, the 'strolling player' Rover is a beacon of hope at a time ofunrest. Part of the Oxford English Drama series, this edition has modern-spelling texts, critical introduction, wide-ranging annotation and an informative bibliography.