Swift''s Travels - Eighteenth-Century Satire and Its Legacy

Klappentext New essays on Swift and his impact on satire and satirists up to the present. Zusammenfassung This collection of essays devoted to eighteenth-century satire! with its distinguished list of international contributors! centres on Swift! the genres and authors who influenced him! and his impact on satire and satirists from his own time to the twentieth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part 1. Swift and his Antecedents; 1. Swiftian satire and the afterlife of allegory David Rosen and Aaron Santesso; 2. Swift, Leviathan and the persons of authors Jonathan Lamb; 3. Killing no murder: Jonathan Swift and the polemical tradition Ian Higgins; 4. Satirical Wells from Bath to Ballyspellan Harold Love; 5. Dryden and the invention of irony Steven N. Zwicker; Part 2. Swift and his Time: 6. Self, stuff and surface: the rhetoric of things in Swift's satire Barbara M. Benedict; 7. Swift's shapeshifting David Womersley; 8. Swift and the poetry of exile Pat Rogers; 9. Verses on the death of Dr Swift, reconsidered Howard Erskine-Hill; 10. Naming and shaming in the poetry of Pope and Swift, 1726-1745 James McLaverty; Part 3. Beyond Swift: 11. Pope and the evolution of social class Nicholas Hudson; 12. Fielding's satire and the Jestbook tradition: the case of Lord Justice Page Thomas Keymer; 13. Jane Austen: satirical historian Peter Sabor; 14. Austen's voices Jenny Davidson; 15. The hungry mouth: parody in Hogarth, Goya, and Domenico Tiepolo Ronald Paulson; 16. Beckett in the country of the Houyhnhnms: the inward turn of Swiftian satire Marjorie Perloff.

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• Autori: Nicholas Hudson, Nicholas Santesso Hudson
• Con la collaborazione di: Nicholas Hudson (Editore), Aaron Santesso (Editore), Santesso Aaron (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 03.03.2011
• EAN: 9780521188678
• ISBN: 978-0-521-18867-8
• Pagine: 320
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, C 1700 To C 1800, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form