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Brothers of the Quill : Oliver Goldsmith in Grub Street / Norma Clarke.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (416 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780674968721
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 828/.609 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chronology -- Introduction -- Part I: Grub Street -- 1. An Irishman in London -- 2. ‘Borderers Upon Parnassus’ -- 3. The Philosophic Vagabond -- 4. Covent Garden -- 5. Authors by Profession -- 6. Writing for the Press -- 7. Beau Tibbs -- 8. The Real Story of John Carteret Pilkington -- Part II: Man of Letters -- 9. Debauchery -- 10. The Vicar of Wakefield -- 11. James Grainger and The Sugar-cane -- 12. Robert Nugent and Son -- 13. The Good-Natured Man -- Postscript -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- Index
Summary: Oliver Goldsmith arrived in England a penniless Irishman and toiled for years in the anonymity of Grub Street. Norma Clarke tells how this destitute scribbler became one of literary London’s most celebrated authors, transmuting dark truths about the empire into fable and nostalgia whose undertow of Irish indignation remains just barely perceptible.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chronology -- Introduction -- Part I: Grub Street -- 1. An Irishman in London -- 2. ‘Borderers Upon Parnassus’ -- 3. The Philosophic Vagabond -- 4. Covent Garden -- 5. Authors by Profession -- 6. Writing for the Press -- 7. Beau Tibbs -- 8. The Real Story of John Carteret Pilkington -- Part II: Man of Letters -- 9. Debauchery -- 10. The Vicar of Wakefield -- 11. James Grainger and The Sugar-cane -- 12. Robert Nugent and Son -- 13. The Good-Natured Man -- Postscript -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- Index

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Oliver Goldsmith arrived in England a penniless Irishman and toiled for years in the anonymity of Grub Street. Norma Clarke tells how this destitute scribbler became one of literary London’s most celebrated authors, transmuting dark truths about the empire into fable and nostalgia whose undertow of Irish indignation remains just barely perceptible.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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