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 158
Carole Fabricant. The Ladies and the Dean's Servants growing fast into the Manners and Thieveries of the Natives : The Ladies themselves very much corrupted ; the Dean perpetually storming , and in Danger of either losing all his Flesh ...
Carole Fabricant. The Ladies and the Dean's Servants growing fast into the Manners and Thieveries of the Natives : The Ladies themselves very much corrupted ; the Dean perpetually storming , and in Danger of either losing all his Flesh ...
Page 247
... Dean of St. Patrick's met face to face - an encounter that , although probably fictitious , in a sense ought to have occurred , given the two men's common roles as popular folk heroes and patriotic actors on behalf of their country's ...
... Dean of St. Patrick's met face to face - an encounter that , although probably fictitious , in a sense ought to have occurred , given the two men's common roles as popular folk heroes and patriotic actors on behalf of their country's ...
Page 304
... Dean , in the Person of a Lady in the North , 36-39 , 42 , 253 ; A Panegyric on the Reverend Dean Swift , In Answer to the Libel on Dr. Delany , and a Certain Great Lord , 31 and 31n , 77 , 174 , 259 ; Part of the Seventh Epistle of the ...
... Dean , in the Person of a Lady in the North , 36-39 , 42 , 253 ; A Panegyric on the Reverend Dean Swift , In Answer to the Libel on Dr. Delany , and a Certain Great Lord , 31 and 31n , 77 , 174 , 259 ; Part of the Seventh Epistle of the ...
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 |