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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... landscape entails both a linear journey that parallels the course of eighteenth - century history and a continuous circling around the fixed patterns of Swift's mind . ii The exploration of Swift's landscape is a major undertaking , for ...
... landscape entails both a linear journey that parallels the course of eighteenth - century history and a continuous circling around the fixed patterns of Swift's mind . ii The exploration of Swift's landscape is a major undertaking , for ...
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... landscape . Unquestionably it was a central aspect of one major conception of landscape during this period , the one characterized by Horace Walpole in his statement that " Poetry , Painting & Gardening , or the science of Landscape ...
... landscape . Unquestionably it was a central aspect of one major conception of landscape during this period , the one characterized by Horace Walpole in his statement that " Poetry , Painting & Gardening , or the science of Landscape ...
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Carole Fabricant. himself , who is at the moment sharing his hostess's landscape and who , as other verses in the Market - Hill series indicate , is even more prone than she to wander through its grounds . The landscape described here is ...
Carole Fabricant. himself , who is at the moment sharing his hostess's landscape and who , as other verses in the Market - Hill series indicate , is even more prone than she to wander through its grounds . The landscape described here is ...
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 |