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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Carole Fabricant. CHAPTER.4 The Subversion of the Country House Ideal Although the country house ideal is in many ways closely linked to the pastoral vision , sharing as it does an assumption about man's close relationship to nature ...
Carole Fabricant. CHAPTER.4 The Subversion of the Country House Ideal Although the country house ideal is in many ways closely linked to the pastoral vision , sharing as it does an assumption about man's close relationship to nature ...
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... ideal . So too does Hibbard's argument against the view that Pope's idea of virtue , as set forth in the Epistle to Burlington , is a class concept : " ... I do not believe that Pope thought in terms of class antagonism any more than ...
... ideal . So too does Hibbard's argument against the view that Pope's idea of virtue , as set forth in the Epistle to Burlington , is a class concept : " ... I do not believe that Pope thought in terms of class antagonism any more than ...
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... ideal . As he explains his retirement from public life at the end of his Memoirs : " And so I take leave of all those airy visions which have so long busied my head about mending the world ; and at the same time , of all those shining ...
... ideal . As he explains his retirement from public life at the end of his Memoirs : " And so I take leave of all those airy visions which have so long busied my head about mending the world ; and at the same time , of all those shining ...
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 |