²¹ See ibid. 475. The novel’s structure is also addressed in Robert H. Hopkins’s influential reading of the novel as a satire in The True Genius of Oliver Goldsmith (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1974), 199–207; Sven Bäckman, This Singular Tale: A Study of the Vicar of Wakefield and Its Literary Background, Lund Studies in English, 40 (Lund, Sweden: G. W. K. Gleerup, 1971); Arthur F. Kinney, Oliver Goldsmith Revisited (Boston: Twayne, 1991), 76–7; Ricardo Quintana, Oliver Goldsmith: A Georgian Study (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1967), 109–12.