Swift's LandscapeSwift's Landscape argues for a fundamental reevaluation of Jonathan Swift's place in eighteenth-century literary history. Combining history, biography, and literary criticism, Carole Fabricant restores both Swift's life and his writings to their proper landscape - by emphasizing the influence of the author's Irish involvements and environs on his work. |
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Page 98
... represented by an age immedi- ately preceding it , are disappearing . Williams's historical escalator , whose steps ... represent an inevitable dis- tortion of historical realities , a mystification of the present as well as of the past ...
... represented by an age immedi- ately preceding it , are disappearing . Williams's historical escalator , whose steps ... represent an inevitable dis- tortion of historical realities , a mystification of the present as well as of the past ...
Page 254
... representing , on one level or other , the entire spectrum of Irish society . Denis Donoghue is therefore right when ... represents here does not grow out of any facile assumptions about the " natural " whole- ness of the social order ...
... representing , on one level or other , the entire spectrum of Irish society . Denis Donoghue is therefore right when ... represents here does not grow out of any facile assumptions about the " natural " whole- ness of the social order ...
Page 255
... represent a different kind of “ mid- dleman " from ( although they belong to the the same world as ) the one Ronald Paulson associates with the typical subject of a Swiftian satire : " He is a middleman in the sense that he is a hack ...
... represent a different kind of “ mid- dleman " from ( although they belong to the the same world as ) the one Ronald Paulson associates with the typical subject of a Swiftian satire : " He is a middleman in the sense that he is a hack ...
Contents
CENTRAL FEATURES OF SWIFTS LANDSCAPE | 24 |
SWIFTS ANTIPASTORAL VISION AND IRELANDS | 55 |
THE SUBVERSION OF THE COUNTRY HOUSE IDEAL | 95 |
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Elations: The Poetics of Enthusiasm in Eighteenth-century Britain Shaun Irlam No preview available - 1999 |