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Richard C. Taylor is the author of Goldsmith As Journalist (1993) and articles on Oliver Goldsmith, theatre history, women writers, and other eighteenth-century British topics that have appeared in Review of English Studies, Modern Philology, Philological Quarterly, Studies in English Literature, English Language Notes, Comparative Drama, Sheridan Studies Review, and elsewhere. "Goldsmith's First Vicar" was included in Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800 (Gail 2000). He has also worked on the subject of literary anonymity and on the novelist and poet Charlotte Smith. He is a former Director of Freshman Composition and teaches courses in British literary history, as well as a variety of other courses in literature, composition, and women's studies.
Degrees
B.A. Franklin and Marshall College
M.A. Millersville University
Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University
Areas of Interest
18th-Century British Culture
British Women Writers
Courses Taught
6005: Bibliography and Methods
5120: English Drama
4120: 18th Century Literature
3300: Women and Literature
3010: History of British Literature, 1700-1900
3000: History of British Literature to 1700
2000: Interpreting Literature
1200: Composition
1100: Composition
Selected Publications and Presentations
Goldsmith As Journalist . Madison, New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson UP; London and Toronto: Associated UP, 1993.
Literature and Literary Criticism” in English Studies: An Introduction to the Discipline(s), ed. Bruce McComiskey ( Urbana, Ill: NCTE, 2006): 199-222.
“Composing Lives: A Review of Recent Scholarship on Early Women Writers” NWSA Journal 15.2 (Summer 2003): 1-9.
"`Future Retrospection': Rereading Sheridan's Reviewers" in Sheridan Studies, ed. David Crane and James Morwood (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995): 47-57
"James Harrison's The Novelist's Magazine and the Early Canonizing of the English Novel" SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 33 (Summer 1993): 629-643.
"Goldsmith's First Vicar" Review of English Studies 41 (March 1990): 191-99.
"The Politics of Goldsmith's Journalism" Philological Quarterly 69 (Winter 1990): 71-89.
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