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 70
... look sadly desolate " ( 193 ) . To be sure , Swift improved his Laracor environs considerably over the years , planting trees and tending to grounds that included a canal and river walk . As he observed in a letter to Esther Vanhomrigh ...
... look sadly desolate " ( 193 ) . To be sure , Swift improved his Laracor environs considerably over the years , planting trees and tending to grounds that included a canal and river walk . As he observed in a letter to Esther Vanhomrigh ...
Page 88
... look of gaiety . No such act of forgetting and no such look are possible when we read Swift's accounts of the conditions prevailing in the Irish countryside . His depictions work in an opposite manner from Goldsmith's : They move away ...
... look of gaiety . No such act of forgetting and no such look are possible when we read Swift's accounts of the conditions prevailing in the Irish countryside . His depictions work in an opposite manner from Goldsmith's : They move away ...
Page 294
... look of ( contrasted with Swift ) , 4 , 191- 92 , 193 , 195-96 , 238 ; as country gentle- man , 114 , 223 ; as Swift's host , 133 , 134 ; Swift's letters to , 14-15 , 65-66 , 70 , 102 , 114 , 191-92 , 195-96 , 202 ; as one of Swift's ...
... look of ( contrasted with Swift ) , 4 , 191- 92 , 193 , 195-96 , 238 ; as country gentle- man , 114 , 223 ; as Swift's host , 133 , 134 ; Swift's letters to , 14-15 , 65-66 , 70 , 102 , 114 , 191-92 , 195-96 , 202 ; as one of Swift's ...
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 |