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

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

List 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.

About the author

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

Summary

This volume presents a wide-ranging new perspective on Swift's literary and political achievement in its English and Irish contexts, bringing together some of the most energetic current scholarship in the subject in both historical and literary studies.

Product details

• Authors: Claude Rawson, Claude (Yale University Rawson
• Assisted by: Claude Rawson (Editor), Claude (Yale University Rawson (Editor), Rawson Claude (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.07.2014
• EAN: 9781107422490
• ISBN: 978-1-107-42249-0
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, English, HISTORY / Europe / General, Politics & government, British & Irish history, Literary studies: general, Politics and government, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form