Vicar of Wakefield: More Notes
From T’s class:
Goldsmith was part of the Johnson circle. Born in Ireland but never returned, hence there is a powerful sense of exile in his work. This is the first explicit implication of domesticity that we’ve read in the class. Mr. B’s house is not a home, but Primrose does have a hoe (at least in the beginning).
There are rumors (probably initiated by Boswell, who was a rival) that Johnson wrote some of The Vicar of Wakefield.
Are we supposed to take Vicar at face value as a story about faith? Jonathan Lamb has a book about Job stories in the 18th century in which he says that Job stroies are a working out of the reconciliation of theory and practice, maintaining faith in a world that is hostile to idealists. The Job stories play this out in explicitly religious discourse.
Irony is a problem in the text; how seriously are we supposed to take this?
Burchill is an allegory for God coming down to earth, and all the people who are nice to him are rewarded and the people who are vicious are punished.
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