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 62
... whole , Swift's delineations of the country constitute a nega- tion of all those features and characteristics which Ernst Curtius associates with the locus amoenus . Journeying through Swift's landscape , we find few traces indeed of ...
... whole , Swift's delineations of the country constitute a nega- tion of all those features and characteristics which Ernst Curtius associates with the locus amoenus . Journeying through Swift's landscape , we find few traces indeed of ...
Page 123
... whole does not show Temple's garden of retirement as a Paradise , an ordered epitome of existence like Nunappleton . " 45 Indeed , the only mention of " Paradises " appears amidst suggestions of airy illusion and fantasy- juxtaposed ...
... whole does not show Temple's garden of retirement as a Paradise , an ordered epitome of existence like Nunappleton . " 45 Indeed , the only mention of " Paradises " appears amidst suggestions of airy illusion and fantasy- juxtaposed ...
Page 254
... whole nation , and Swift is its voice . " 55 Yet it is important to recognize that the unity Swift represents here does not grow out of any facile assumptions about the " natural " whole- ness of the social order , and is very different ...
... whole nation , and Swift is its voice . " 55 Yet it is important to recognize that the unity Swift represents here does not grow out of any facile assumptions about the " natural " whole- ness of the social order , and is very different ...
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 |