Politics and Literature in the Age of Swift: English and Irish Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780521190152 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 312 str.

Claude Rawson

Opis

A wide range of new approaches to Swift's literary and political achievement in its English and Irish contexts.

Recenzje

'Politics and Literature is illuminated by rich essays from distinguished scholars.' Charles A. Knight, The Scriblerian

Spis treści

Preface Claude Rawson; Part I. The Political Swift 1 (England): 1. Jonathan Swift's political confession Ian Higgins; 2. Situating Swift's politics in 1701 Mark Goldie; 3. Swift and Walpole Paul Langford; Part II. The Writer and His World: 4. Burying the fanatic partridge: Swift's Holy Week hoax Valerie Rumbold; 5. Swift and the art of political publication: hints and title pages, 1711–14 James McLaverty; 6. Swift's poetics of friendship Helen Deutsch; 7. 'Now deaf 1740': entrapment, foreboding, and exorcism in late Swift David Womersley; 8. Savage indignation revisited: Swift, Yeats, and the 'cry' of liberty Claude Rawson; Part III. The Political Swift 2 (Ireland): 9. 'Paltry Underlings of State'? The character and aspirations of the 'Castle' Party, 1715–32 D. W. Hayton; 10. Old English, New English and Ancient Irish: Swift and the Irish past Sean Connolly; 11. Jonathan Swift and the Irish Colonial Project Robert Mahony; Index.