Brothers of the quill : Oliver Goldsmith in Grub Street
- Submitting institution
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Kingston University
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 27-10-1422
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1111/1754-0208.12491
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- ISBN
- 9780674736573
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- The book documents a wide network of writers from the celebrated ‘Club’ around Dr Johnson to those lesser-known ‘brothers of the quill’ trapped in Grub Street. Extensive research places Goldsmith in the tradition of Anglo-Irish satirists by showing how many of his early literary acquaintances were Irish émigrés: Samuel Derrick, John Pilkington, Paul Hiffernan, and Edward Purdon are shown to have tutored Goldsmith in the ways of Grub Street. The argument carefully details the extent – previously unexplored – of their influence on his development. Reviews appeared in The Guardian, Times Higher Education Supplement, Irish Times and The Washington Post.
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- Non-English
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