Politics and Literature in the Age of Swift

English and Irish Perspectives
Herausgeber: Rawson, Claude

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 455g
• ISBN-13: 9781107422490
• ISBN-10: 1107422493
• Artikelnr.: 41124538

Inhaltsangabe

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.