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By Oliver Goldsmith
Oliver Goldsmith's highly winning novel of 1766 remained for generations probably the most very hot and cherished works of eighteenth-century fiction. It depicts the autumn and upward thrust of the Primrose relations, presided over by way of the benevolent vicar, the narrator of a fairy-tale plot of impersonation and deception, the kidnapping of an attractive heroine and the machinations of an aristocratic villain. via turns comedian and mawkish, the novel's recognition owes a lot to its recognizable depiction of household existence and loving kin relationships.
New to this version is an advent by means of Robert L. Mack that examines the explanations for the novels enduring attractiveness, in addition to the serious debates over if it is an easy novel of sentiment or a satire at the social and fiscal inequalities of the interval and the very literary conventions and morality it sort of feels to embrace. This version additionally encompasses a new, updated bibliography and elevated notes, and includes reprints of Arthur Friedman's authoritative Oxford English Novels textual content of the corrected first version of 1766.
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The family endeavours to cope with their betters. The miseries of the poor when they attempt to appear above their circumstances 44 xi. The family still resolve to hold up their heads 48 xii. Fortune seems resolved to humble the family of Wakefield. Mortifications are often more painful than real calamities 52 xiii. Mr. Burchell is found to be an enemy; for he has the confidence to give disagreeable advice 56 xiv. Fresh mortifications, or a demonstration that seeming calamities may be real blessings 59 Contents 6 xv.
The Little Republic” of the Family: Goldsmith’s Politics of Nostalgia’, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 16/2 (Jan. 2004), 174–96. Dixon, Peter, Oliver Goldsmith Revisited (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1991). Select Bibliography xliii Durant, David, ‘The Vicar of Wakefield and the Sentimental Novel’, Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900, 17 (1977), 477–91. , ‘The Vicar of Wakefield: “Sickly Sensibility” and the Rewards of Fortune’, in The Discourse of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century Fiction (The Hague and Paris: Mouton, 1974), 148–72.
Readers—many of them women—were throughout the century increasingly drawn to works of fiction that exhibited the moving spectacle of ‘virtue in distress’; one’s own ability to empathize with the misfortunes of fictional others was looked upon as a measure of the strength of one’s own ‘heart’ and of the vigour of those moral principles that in turn dictate the behaviour of our lives. Novels such as Samuel Richardson’s Pamela and Clarissa simply paved the way for later works containing even more provocative displays of (usually female) suffering, all designed to draw forth from readers as highly sensitized and as actively sympathetic a response as possible.