Book contents
- Oliver Goldsmith in Context
- Oliver Goldsmith in Context
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface
- Chronology
- Abbreviations
- Part I Life and Career
- Part II Social, Cultural, and Intellectual Contexts
- Chapter 5 Enlightenments
- Chapter 6 Universities
- Chapter 7 Libraries
- Chapter 8 The Club
- Chapter 9 Irish London
- Chapter 10 Liberty
- Chapter 11 Cosmopolitanism
- Chapter 12 Marriage
- Chapter 13 Gender
- Chapter 14 Race
- Chapter 15 Religion
- Chapter 16 Natural History and Science
- Chapter 17 War and Empire
- Chapter 18 Ghosts
- Part III Literary Contexts
- Part IV Critical Fortunes and Afterlives
- Further Reading
- Index
Chapter 14 - Race
from Part II - Social, Cultural, and Intellectual Contexts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 November 2024
- Oliver Goldsmith in Context
- Oliver Goldsmith in Context
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface
- Chronology
- Abbreviations
- Part I Life and Career
- Part II Social, Cultural, and Intellectual Contexts
- Chapter 5 Enlightenments
- Chapter 6 Universities
- Chapter 7 Libraries
- Chapter 8 The Club
- Chapter 9 Irish London
- Chapter 10 Liberty
- Chapter 11 Cosmopolitanism
- Chapter 12 Marriage
- Chapter 13 Gender
- Chapter 14 Race
- Chapter 15 Religion
- Chapter 16 Natural History and Science
- Chapter 17 War and Empire
- Chapter 18 Ghosts
- Part III Literary Contexts
- Part IV Critical Fortunes and Afterlives
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
Race’ presents Goldsmith as a writer who played a role in the consolidation of racial ideology in the eighteenth century. Contrary to the views of some who would hold Goldsmith as an anti-imperialist writer, Goldsmith is presented here as an author whose natural historical writings in particular popularize ostensibly scientific hierarchies of race which themselves informed and underpinned ideologies of empire and subjugation.
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- Oliver Goldsmith in Context , pp. 114 - 125Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024