Oliver Goldsmith: The Critical HeritageG.S. Rousseau The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to reaad the material themselves. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Traveller or a Prospect of Society December
1764 | 29 |
The Vicar of Wakefield 27 March 1766 | 44 |
The Good Natured Man 29 January 1768 | 70 |
The Deserted Village 26 May 1770 | 76 |
She Stoops to Conquer March 1773 | 115 |
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