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 17
... Contemporary art forms can only imperfectly convey or distort outright what they are designed to give permanent definition to , whether because the subject matter is too exalted ( as in the case of fame ) or because it is too debased ...
... Contemporary art forms can only imperfectly convey or distort outright what they are designed to give permanent definition to , whether because the subject matter is too exalted ( as in the case of fame ) or because it is too debased ...
Page 57
Carole Fabricant. in contemporary topography ; it can be characterized only by images of an emphatically postlapsarian garden : Our British soil is over - rank , and ... contemporary reality Antipastoral Vision and Antipastoral Reality 57.
Carole Fabricant. in contemporary topography ; it can be characterized only by images of an emphatically postlapsarian garden : Our British soil is over - rank , and ... contemporary reality Antipastoral Vision and Antipastoral Reality 57.
Page 96
... contemporary writers used the image of a flourishing , well - ordered estate to celebrate their country's moral and economic health , Swift characteristically delineated the existing historical situation via the image of a decaying ...
... contemporary writers used the image of a flourishing , well - ordered estate to celebrate their country's moral and economic health , Swift characteristically delineated the existing historical situation via the image of a decaying ...
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 |