The Collected Letters of Oliver Goldsmith, ed. Katherine C. Balderston (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1928); includes the recollections of Goldsmith’s sister, Mrs Catherine Hudson, as appendix III.
Collected Works of Oliver Goldsmith, ed. Arthur Friedman, 5 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966); Friedman’s carefully edited text of the novel is printed in vol. iv, with a brief but excellent introduction detailing its composition, sale, and publication.
Goldsmith: Selected Works, ed. Richard Garnett, the Reynard Library (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1967).
The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, ed. James Prior (London, 1801).
The Plays of Oliver Goldsmith together with The Vicar of Wakefield, ed. C.E. Doble and G. Ostler (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1909).
The Poems of Gray, Collins, and Goldsmith, ed. Roger Lonsdale, Annotated English Poets (London: Longman, 1969).
The Vicar of Wakefield, ed. Oswald Doughty (London: Scholartis Press, 1928).
The Vicar of Wakefield and Other Writings, ed. Frederick W. Hilles (New York: The Modern Library, 1955).
The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, ed. Peter Cunningham, 4 vols. (London, 1854).
Black, William, Goldsmith, English Men of Letters (London, 1878).
Dobson, Austin, Life and Writings of Oliver Goldsmith, Great Writers (London, n.d. [1889]).
Dussinger, John A., ‘Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?–1774)’, in Colin Matthew and Brian Harrison (eds.), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).
Forster, John, The Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith, 2 vols. (1848; 6th edn., London: Bickerson and Son, 1877).
Friedman, Arthur, ‘Oliver Goldsmith’, in George Watson (ed.), The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, 5 vols. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971), ii. 1191–1210. Ginger, John, The Notable Man: The Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1977).
Irving, Washington, Oliver Goldsmith (1844; 2nd edn., New York: 1849) (revised from 1st edn. of Forster, Life and Times, above).
Jefferes, A. Norman, Oliver Goldsmith, Writers and Their Work (London, 1959).
Lytton Sells, A., Oliver Goldsmith: His Life and Works (London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1974).
Mikhail, E. H., Goldsmith: Interviews and Recollections (New York: St Martin’s Press, 1993).
Percy, Thomas, ‘The Life of Dr Oliver Goldsmith’, in The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, vol. i (London, 1801), i. 1–118.
Prior, James, The Life of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B., 4 vols. (London, 1837).
Quintana, Ricardo, Oliver Goldsmith: A Georgian Study, Masters of World Literature series (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969).
Sherwin, Oscar, Goldy: The Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith (New York: Twayne, 1961).
Wardle, Ralph M., Oliver Goldsmith (London: Constable & Co., 1957).
Woods, Samuel H., Oliver Goldsmith: A Reference Guide (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1982).
Bredvold, Louis I., The Natural History of Sensibility (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1962).
Braudy, Leo, ‘The Form of the Sentimental Novel’, Novel, 7 (Fall 1973), 5–13.
Brissenden, R. F., Virtue in Distress: Studies in the Novel of Sentiment from Richardson to Sade (London: Hutchinson, 1974).
Conger, Sydney McMillan (ed.), Sensibility in Transformation: Creative Resistance to Sentiment from the Augustans to the Romantics; Essays in Honour of Jean H. Hagstrum (Rutherford, NJ: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 1990).
Crane, R. S., ‘Suggestions toward a Genealogy of the “Man of Feeling”’, ELH 1 (1934), 205–30.
Ellis, Markman, The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender, and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
Friedman, Arthur, ‘Aspects of Sentimentalism in Eighteenth-Century Literature’, in H. K. Miller, Eric Rothstein, and G. S. Rousseau (eds.) The Augustan Milieu: Essays Presented to Louis A. Landa (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970).
Knox, Ronald, Enthusiasm: A Chapter in the History of Religion (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1950).
Mason, John, Gentlefolk in the Making, 1531–1774 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1935).
Mullan, John, Sentiment and Sociability: The Language of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988).
Rawson, Claude, Satire and Sentiment, 1660–1830 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1933).
Starr, G. A., ‘Sentimental Novels of the Later Eighteenth Century’ in John Richetti, John Bender, Deidre David, and Michael Seidel, (eds.), The Columbia History of the British Novel (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994), 181–98.
Todd, Janet, Sensibility: An Introduction (London: Methuen, 1987).
Van Sant, Ann Jessie, Eighteenth-Century Sensibility and the Novel: The Senses in Social Context, Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
Critical Studies of Goldsmith and The Vicar of Wakefield
Bäckman, Sven, This Singular Tale: A Study of ‘The Vicar of Wakefield’ and Its Literary Background, Lund Studies in English, 40 (Lund: C. W. K. Gleerup, 1971).
Bataille, Robert A., ‘City and Country in The Vicar of Wakefield’, Eighteenth-Century Life, 3 (1977), 112–14.
Battestin, Martin, ‘Goldsmith: The Comedy of Job’, in The Providence of Wit: Aspects of Form in Augustan Literature and the Arts (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974), 193–214.
Bender, John, ‘Prison Reform and the Sentence of Narration in The Vicar of Wakefield’, in Felicity Nussbaum and Laura Browns (eds.), The New Eighteenth Century (New York: Methuen, 1987), 168–88.
Carson, James P., ‘“The Little Republic” of the Family: Goldsmith’s Politics of Nostalgia’, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 16/2 Jan. 2004), 174–96
Dixon, Peter, Oliver Goldsmith Revisited (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1991).
Durant, David, ‘The Vicar of Wakefield and the Sentimental Novel’, Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900, 17 (1977), 477–91.
Dussinger, John A., ‘The Vicar of Wakefield: “Sickly Sensibility” and the Rewards of Fortune’, in The Discourse of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century Fiction (The Hague and Paris: Mouton, 1974), 148–72.
Dykstal, Timothy, ‘The Story of O: Politics and Pleasure in The Vicar of Wakefield’, ELH 62 (1995), 329–46.
Ferguson, Oliver W. ‘Goldsmith as Ironist’, Studies in Philology, 81/2 (1984), 212–28.
—‘Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield, and the Periodicals’, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 76 (1977), 525–36.
Golden, Morris, ‘The Time of Writing of The Vicar of Wakefield’ Bulletin of the New York Public Library (Sept. 1961), 442–50.
Harkin, Maureen, ‘Goldsmith on Authorship in The Vicar of Wakefield’, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 14/3–4 (2002), 325–44.
Hilliard, Raymond F. ‘The Redemption of Fatherhood in The Vicar of Wakefield’, Studies in English Literature, 23 (1983), 465–80.
Hopkins, Robert H., The True Genius of Oliver Goldsmith (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1969).
—‘Matrimony in The Vicar of Wakefield and the Marriage Act of 1753’, Studies in Philology, 74 (1977), 322–39.
Jaarsma, Richard J., ‘Satiric Intent in The Vicar of Wakefield’, Studies in Short Fiction, 5 (1967–68), 331–41.
Jaffares, Norman A., ‘The Vicar of Wakefield’ in Seàn Lucy (ed.), Goldsmith: The Gentle Master (Cork: Cork University Press, 1984).
Mullan, John, Sentiment and Sociability: The Language of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988).
Murray, David, ‘From Patrimony to Paternity in The Vicar of Wakefield’, in Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 9/3 (Apr. 1997), 327–36.
Pierce, Robert B., ‘Moral Education in the Novel of the 1750s’, Philological Quarterly, 44 (1965), 73–83.
Quintana, Ricardo, ‘The Vicar of Wakefield: The Problem of Critical Approach’, Modern Philology, 71 (1973), 59–65.
Rogers, Henry N., ‘God’s Implausible Plot: The Providential Design of The Vicar of Wakefield’, Philological Review, 28/1 (2002), 5–17.
Rothstein, Eric, and Weinbrot, Howard, ‘The Vicar of Wakefield, Mr Wilmot, and the “Whitsonean Controversy”’, Philological Quarterly, 55 (1976), 225–40.
Rousseau, G. S. (ed.), Goldsmith: The Critical Heritage, Critical Heritage series (gen. ed. Brian C. Southam) (London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974).
Swarbrick, Andrew (ed.), The Art of Oliver Goldsmith (London: Vision Press, 1984).
Taylor, Richard C., ‘Goldsmith’s First Vicar’, Review of English Studies, 41/162 (1990), 191–9.
Austen, Jane, Catharine and Other Writings, ed. Margaret Anne Doody and Douglas Murray.
——Sense and Sensibility, ed. James Kinsley, Margaret Anne Doody and Claire Lamont.
Boswell, James, Life of Johnson, ed. Pat Rogers and R. W. Chapman.
Burke, Edmund, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, ed. Adam Phillips.
Burney, Fanny, Evelina, ed. Edward A. Bloom and Vivien Jones.
Defoe, Daniel, Robinson Crusoe, ed. J. Donald Crowley.
Fielding, Henry, Joseph Andrews and Shamela, ed. Thomas Keymer.
——Tom Jones, ed. John Bender and Simon Stern.
Hume, David, Selected Essays, ed. Stephen Copley and Andrew Edgar.
Johnson, Samuel, The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia, ed. J. P. Hardy.
Mackenzie, Henry, The Man of Feeling, ed. Brian Vickers, Stephen Bending, and Stephen Bygrave.
Sterne, Laurence, A Sentimental Journey and Other Writings, ed. Ian Jack and Tim Parnell.
——The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, ed. Ian Campbell Ross.