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Some Sources of Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Gertrude Van Arsdale Ingalls*
Affiliation:
Western State College of Colorado.

Extract

Among nineteenth century critics it was the fashion to consider Oliver Goldsmith one of the most original of writers; and The Vicar and She Stoops to Conquer were always cited as examples of that originality. Modern scholarship, which has destroyed so many of the traditions concerning Goldsmith, has thus far left these two works intact.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1929

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