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Informationen zum Autor Claude Rawson is Maynard Mack Professor of English at Yale University. He is a General Editor for The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift and author of God, Gulliver and Genocide: Barbarism and the European Imagination 1492–1945 (2001). He is most recently the editor of Essential Writings of Jonathan Swift: A Norton Critical Edition (co-edited with Ian Higgins, 2010); Great Shakespeareans: Volume 1, Dryden Pope, Johnson, Malone (2010); Literature and Politics in the Age of Swift: English and Irish Perspectives (Cambridge, 2010) and The Cambridge Companion to English Poets (Cambridge, 2011). Klappentext A study of the brilliant satirist and polemicist Jonathan Swift, by one of the foremost scholars of our time. Zusammenfassung Jonathan Swift is generally considered one of the greatest satirists and most important writers of England and Ireland. Claude Rawson discusses the sardonic view of human nature! the political activism! and the indignations and self-divisions in Swift's prose and verse to reveal the terrible! but deeply guarded! angers found therein. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: not Timons Manner; Part I. Ireland: 1. Swift, Ireland and the paradoxes of ethnicity; 2. The injured lady and the drapier: a reading of Swift's Irish tracts; Part II. Fiction: 3. The mock-edition revisited: Swift to Mailer; 4. Gulliver's Travels; 5. Swift's 'I' narrators; Part III. Poetry: 6. Rage and raillery and Swift: the case of Cadenus and Vanessa; 7. Vanessa as a reader of Gulliver's Travels; 8. Swift's poetry: an overview; 9. 'I The Lofty Stile Decline': vicissitudes of the 'heroick strain' in Swift's poems; 10. Savage indignation revisited: Swift, Yeats, and the 'cry' of liberty.
