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  • Chapter 5 - Enlightenments

  • from Part II - Social, Cultural, and Intellectual 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 39-46

  • Summary

    Goldsmith’s status as an Enlightenment writer is a matter of debate. He was a translator of French Enlightenment writing for an anglophone audience, but he was also, in his verse and elsewhere, a traditionalist whose worldview could sit oddly with the progressive nature of much of his prose output. In accounting for a multiplicity of enlightenments, categorized in terms of the intellectual cultures of different nations, this chapter studies Goldsmith’s relationship to a more plural enlightenment, an Irish variant on a more general enlightenment commitment to an improved future.