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 35
... common with the benighted Australian aborigines of Dampier's New Holland , " 21 but I am arguing they have even more in common with the " aborigines " of eighteenth - century Ireland , whom Swift , indeed , on several occasions likened ...
... common with the benighted Australian aborigines of Dampier's New Holland , " 21 but I am arguing they have even more in common with the " aborigines " of eighteenth - century Ireland , whom Swift , indeed , on several occasions likened ...
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... common People " ( PW , 10:88 ) . Swift's close association with " the common People " was reinforced by his manner of traversing his environs . An inveterate walker , Swift covered almost every inch of the Liberties and their ...
... common People " ( PW , 10:88 ) . Swift's close association with " the common People " was reinforced by his manner of traversing his environs . An inveterate walker , Swift covered almost every inch of the Liberties and their ...
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... common with their only relatively more disadvantaged compatriots . Under the circumstances , anyone who chose to speak for , and act in the interests of , " a Knot of Beggars " was inevitab- ly representing , on one level or other , the ...
... common with their only relatively more disadvantaged compatriots . Under the circumstances , anyone who chose to speak for , and act in the interests of , " a Knot of Beggars " was inevitab- ly representing , on one level or other , 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 |