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  • Chapter 27 - Satire and Sentiment

  • 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 228-236

  • Summary

    Satire and Sentiment’ proposes that the commingling of sentimental and satiric modes in Goldsmith’s oeuvre enables him to negotiate the tension between moral ideals and intractable historical structures, using the movement between sentimental and satiric registers to interrogate the difficulty of living in the face of the political, social, and economic changes in Great Britain during the second half of the eighteenth century. Focusing on novels like The Vicar of Wakefield, ‘spy narratives’ like The Citizen of the World, poems like The Traveller and The Deserted Village, and plays like She Stoops to Conquer, the chapter investigates what might be termed the performative dimension of sentimentality and satire in narrative, poetic, and dramatic forms.

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  • Jared Hudson, Harvard University, Massachusetts
  • Book:
    The Rhetoric of Roman Transportation
    Published online:
    20 January 2021
    Print publication:
    07 January 2021, pp 312-315

  • Summary

    A parting discussion takes up the figure of the first-person narrator-in-transit of Apuleius' Metamorphoses and suggests that such a narrative persona has a deep affiliation with the moralizing stance of the rhetoric of Roman transportation.