Enlightenment in Ruins

Enlightenment in Ruins

Michael Griffin

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Editorial:
Bloomsbury Publishing plc
Año de edición:
2013
Materia
Literatura: historia y crítica
ISBN:
9781611485059

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Crossing disciplinary boundaries between eighteenth-century studies and Irish studies, this book explores the geographies and politics of Oliver Goldsmith’s complex and productive negotiation of the London literary marketplace during the enlightenment.

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