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  • Chapter 1 - Discovering Britain and Ireland

  • Edited by James Watt, University of York, Alison O'Byrne, University of York
  • Book:
    Discovering Britain and Ireland in the Romantic Period
    Published online:
    16 March 2025
    Print publication:
    27 March 2025, pp 35-53

  • Summary

    1. James Watt’s ‘Discovering Britain and Ireland: Goldsmith’s Grand Tours’ focuses on Oliver Goldsmith’s sophisticated use of tourist personae, notably an ‘English gentleman’ in rural Ireland and the Chinese philosopher Lien Chi Altangi in London. The works which feature these imaginary travellers in different ways explore the connection between Britain, Ireland, and the wider world, and The Citizen of the World (1762) uses Altangi to reckon with the effects of British expansion in North America. Albeit that Goldsmith met the Cherokee warrior-chief Ostenaco when the latter came to London on a diplomatic mission, Goldsmith made no attempt to imagine an Indigenous perspective on Britain. His writings are primarily concerned with the domestic impact of British colonization overseas and offer little commentary on the relationship between Britain and Ireland, although as Watt shows here, Goldsmith’s ‘Description of the Manners and Customs of the Native Irish’ (a discussion of which bookends the chapter) suggestively performs, for critical purposes, the insouciance of an English ‘discoverer’ of Ireland.

Discovering Britain and Ireland in the Romantic Period
  • Grand Tours
  • Edited by James Watt, Alison O'Byrne
  • Published online:
    16 March 2025
    Print publication:
    27 March 2025
  • Even as members of the social elite participated in the European Grand Tour, travellers, writers, and readers increasingly recognized that Britain and Ireland might offer sights and experiences to rival the continent. This collection examines the practice and representation of tourism on 'home' ground during the period when modern Britain was invented and became a powerful and prosperous imperial nation. Interdisciplinary essays explore the diverse variety of tours and tourist agendas – artistic, industrial, leisure, scientific – and they address the ways in which travellers' 'discovery' of Britain and Ireland was an active and often self-critical process that potentially encompassed encounters with the alien and unfamiliar. Considering travellers from the wider world as well as from within Britain and Ireland, contributors discuss the function of comparative reference in contemporary travel-writing, as tourists often thought with and through others as they reflected on the distinctiveness and significance of the sites that they visited.

  • Chapter 11 - Cosmopolitanism

  • 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 88-95

  • Summary

    This chapter focuses on Goldsmith’s The Citizen of the World (1762), which brings together the letters from the Chinese philosopher Lien Chi Altangi and his correspondents that were published in the Public Ledger across 1760 and 1761. Referencing many European Enlightenment writers, the chapter discusses Goldsmith’s work as a text which critically reflects on the meaning – and the possibilities and problematics – of the slippery term ‘cosmopolitanism’, considering the way in which it presents as ‘cosmopolitan’ the workings of both global commerce and the elite republic of letters.

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