Jonathan Swift
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Jonathan Swift
(Longman critical readers)
Longman, 1999
- : CSD
- : PPR
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: PPR ISBN 9780582225725
Description
This collection of critical thinking situates the satire of Jonathan Swift within both its eighteenth-century contexts and our modern anxieties about personal identity and communication. Augustan satire at its most provocative is not simply concerned with the public matters of politics or religion, but also offers a precise medium in which to express the paradox of ironic detachment amidst deep conviction.
The critics chosen for this volume demonstrate the complexity of Swift's work. Its four sections explore matters of authorial identity, the relation between Swift's writing and its historical context, the full range of his comments on gender, and his deployment of metaphor and irony to engage the reader. Swift has often been regarded as a writer who anticipated many twentieth-century cultural preoccupations, and this volume provides an opportunity to test just how modern he actually was. It also provides an answer to those who would wish to simplify his writing as that of Tory and misogynist. The theoretical perspectives of the contributors are lucidly explained and their critical terms located in the wider contexts of contemporary theory in the introduction and headnotes. The volume places Swift historically within the philosophical and religious traditions of eighteenth-century thought.
Table of Contents
General Editors' Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Epigraph Introduction Part 1: Reading and Identity
Part 2: Text and Context Part 3: The Female Monster Part 4: Writing and Meaning Further Reading Index
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: CSD ISBN 9780582225732
Description
Provides a collection of theoretical and literary essays on Swift's work. The text places an emphasis on his Anglo-Irishness, which, it argues, is a key area in understanding his life and works. Reference is also made to Swift's gender relations and his female imitators.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Reading and identity: Swift's Tory anarchy, Edward Said
- "Splendide Mendax" - authors, characters and readers in "Gulliver's Travels", Richard H. Rodino
- extract from "Jonathan Swift and the Vested Word", Deborah Baker Wyrick. Part 2 Text and context: scriberian self-fashioning, Brean S. Hammond
- text, "text" and Swift's "A Tale of a Tub", Marrcus Walsh
- extract from "Swift's Narrative Satires", Everett Zimmerman
- extract from "The Politics and Poetics of Transgression", Peter Stallybrass and Allon White. Part 3 The female monster: extract from "The Body in Swift and Defoe", Carol Houlihan Flynn
- feminism and the Augustans - some readings and problems, Penelope Wilson
- Swift among the women, Margaret Anne Doody
- Freud, Swift and Narcissus - a psychological reading of "Strephon and Chloe", Thomas B. Gilmore, Jr. Part 4 Writing and meaning: why the Houynhynms don't write - Swift, satire and the fear of the text
- deconstructing "Gulliver's Travels" - modern readers and the problematic of genre, Louise K. Barnett
- allegory of blindness and insight - will and will-ing in "A Tale of a Tub".
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