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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... friends - for example , Patrick Delany , Lord Orrery , and Charles Ford . Orrery spent so much money on building and landscaping projects designed to beautify his Irish estate at Caledon ( including the construction of a bone house ...
... friends - for example , Patrick Delany , Lord Orrery , and Charles Ford . Orrery spent so much money on building and landscaping projects designed to beautify his Irish estate at Caledon ( including the construction of a bone house ...
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... friends to lure him back to England , either for another extended visit or for purposes of resettlement . The explanations offered for this resistance at times suggest the same sense of growing sep- aration and incommunicativeness ...
... friends to lure him back to England , either for another extended visit or for purposes of resettlement . The explanations offered for this resistance at times suggest the same sense of growing sep- aration and incommunicativeness ...
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... friends residing together , Pope declares that al- though neighbors and loved ones have departed the scene , " yet my house is enlarg'd , and the gardens extend and flourish , as knowing nothing of the guests they have lost . . . . For ...
... friends residing together , Pope declares that al- though neighbors and loved ones have departed the scene , " yet my house is enlarg'd , and the gardens extend and flourish , as knowing nothing of the guests they have lost . . . . For ...
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 |