Overview

Jonathan Swift was the most influential political commentator of his time, in both England and Ireland. His writings are a major source for historians of the eighteenth century, as well as including some of the greatest works of satire in verse and prose. This volume presents wide-ranging new perspectives on Swift's literary and political achievement in its English and Irish contexts, bringing together some of the most energetic current scholarship on the subject in both historical and literary studies. The essays consider Swift's attitude to Dissenters, his relationship with Walpole, and his place in, and understanding of, the political demography of colonial Ireland. They also examine Swift's poems and pamphlets, and his hoaxes and satires, showing his extraordinary versatility in a wide variety of genres. Full of original insights, this volume offers a rich and important new treatment of Swift's central role in eighteenth-century political and literary culture.

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Author:   Claude Rawson (Yale University, Connecticut)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.420kg
ISBN:  

9781107422490

ISBN 10:   1107422493
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   10 July 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

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.

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This serious collection of high-quality scholarship includes a number of essays that will be widely cited, with several that may become touchstone pieces. It is unquestionably a successful book... --Eighteenth-Century Fiction

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Claude Rawson is Maynard Mack Professor of English at Yale University.

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