Oliver Goldsmith in Context

Michael Griffin is Professor of English at the University of Limerick. He is General Editor, with David O'Shaughnessy, of The Collected Works of Oliver Goldsmith (2024– ) and co-editor, also with O'Shaughnessy, of The Letters of Oliver Goldsmith (2018), both for Cambridge University Press. He is the author of Enlightenment in Ruins: The Geographies of Oliver Goldsmith (2013) and editor of The Selected Writings of Thomas Dermody (2012) and The Collected Poems of Laurence Whyte (2016). David O'Shaughnessy is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of Galway. He is General Editor, with Michael Griffin, of The Collected Works of Oliver Goldsmith (2024– ) and co-editor, also with Griffin, of The Letters of Oliver Goldsmith (2018), both for Cambridge University Press. He is also the editor of The Censorship of British Theatre: Playhouses and Prohibition, 1737–1843 (Cambridge University Press, 2023) and Ireland, Enlightenment and the English Stage, 1740–1820 (Cambridge University Press, 2019).

Part I. Life and Career: 1. Life Michael Griffin; 2. Letters David O'Shaughnessy; 3. Friendships and feuds Norma Clarke; 4. Booksellers and the book trade Richard C. Taylor; Part II. Social, Cultural and Intellectual Contexts: 5. Enlightenments Michael Brown; 6. Universities David A. Fleming; 7. Libraries Paul Goring; 8. The club Ian Newman; 9. Irish London John Bergin; 10. Liberty Nigel Wood; 11. Cosmopolitanism James Watt; 12. Marriage Aileen Douglas; 13. Gender Rebecca Anne Barr; 14. Race Kerry Sinanan; 15. Religion James Bryant Reeves; 16. Natural history and science Melissa Bailes; 17. War and empire Robert W. Jones; 18. Ghosts María Losada-Friend; Part III. Literary Contexts: 19. Fiction Ian Campbell Ross; 20. Theatre Gillian Russell; 21. Pastoral poetry Dustin Griffin; 22. Prospect poetry Katherine Turner; 23. Periodicals and literary reviewing Manushag N. Powell; 24. History writing Ben Dew; 25. Authorship Maureen Harkin; 26. Orientalism Eun Kyung Min; 27. Satire and sentiment Lynn Festa; 28. The sister arts Timothy Erwin; 29. Music and song Moyra Haslett; 30. France and French writing Amy Prendergast; Part IV. Critical Fortunes and Afterlives: 31. Editions Will Bowers; 32. Critical reception before 1900 Megan Kitching; 33. Critical reception after 1900 James Ward; 34. Afterlives 1: the Victorian vicar Jarlath Killeen; 35. Afterlives 2: theatre David Clare; 36. Afterlives 3: poetry Alfred Lutz.