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  • Chapter 23 - Periodicals and Literary Reviewing

  • from Part III - Literary Contexts
  • Edited by Michael Griffin, University of Limerick, David O'Shaughnessy, University of Galway
  • Book:
    Oliver Goldsmith in Context
    Published online:
    28 November 2024
    Print publication:
    07 November 2024, pp 194-200

  • Summary

    There is a critical tendency to see Goldsmith now as a dramatist, a novelist, perhaps an essayist – with seldom more than a nod to the actual format in which much of his work was done, and without which he quite possibly would have starved. Goldsmith wrote, willingly, in both forms simultaneously, while apparently fending off personal ambivalence about both. Goldsmith’s wide-ranging periodical and reviewing work is accepted as helpful to the Goldsmith scholar, in that it allows us to theorize the development of his interest in the stage, in French literature, in aesthetic theory, in orientalized subjects, and, though in more indirect ways, in fiction as well. This chapter demonstrates that his career is an exceptional window into the importance of periodical writing to individual authors as well as the culture of reviewing writ large.