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 114
... actual daily operations of a life and economy rooted in the land in a letter Swift wrote to Bolingbroke after his return to Ireland ( C , 2 : 129-30 ) . The Examiner essays do contain recurring expressions of a country house ideology ...
... actual daily operations of a life and economy rooted in the land in a letter Swift wrote to Bolingbroke after his return to Ireland ( C , 2 : 129-30 ) . The Examiner essays do contain recurring expressions of a country house ideology ...
Page 133
... actual physical ailment into a symbol of the unbridgeable dis- tance between human beings and the essential isolation of the self , whether in the midst of Ireland's most desolate regions or amidst the bustling life of Twickenham's ...
... actual physical ailment into a symbol of the unbridgeable dis- tance between human beings and the essential isolation of the self , whether in the midst of Ireland's most desolate regions or amidst the bustling life of Twickenham's ...
Page 212
... actual or metaphorical ( or , as is often the case , a combination of both ) , are never satisfactorily con- cluded , either by means of Christian archetypes or by the actual attainment of a specific destination . They convey at all ...
... actual or metaphorical ( or , as is often the case , a combination of both ) , are never satisfactorily con- cluded , either by means of Christian archetypes or by the actual attainment of a specific destination . They convey at all ...
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 |