Swift and history : politics and the English past

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    • Marshall, Ashley

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Swift and history : politics and the English past

Ashley Marshall

Cambridge University Press, 2015

  • : hardback

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"The idea for this book came from a piece I delivered at the Sixth Münster Symposium on Jonathan Swift"--P. viii

Includes bibliographical references (p. 262-277) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Swift has been said to have little interest in history; his attempts to write it have been disparaged and his desire to become Historiographer Royal ridiculed. Ashley Marshall argues that history mattered enormously to Swift. He read a vast amount of history and uses historical examples copiously in his own works. This study traces Swift's classical and modern historiographical inheritance; analyses his unsuccessful attempt to write a history of England; and offers radical re-reading of his History of the Four Last Years of the Queen. A systematic analysis of Swift's view of 'authority' is highly revealing. His attitudes toward power and authority, sovereigns' and subjects' rights, parliamentary representation, and succession are reflected in his lifelong engagement with and pervasive use of the past. Studying Swift and history enables a deeper understanding of his authoritarian and historiographically Tory outlook - and how it changed when Swift's party fell from power in 1714.

目次

  • Introduction
  • 1. Swift and the historians, ancient and modern
  • 2. Swift, Temple, and the history of England
  • 3. The uses of history in Swiftian satire and polemic
  • 4. 'Swift's rhapsodical Tory-book': the aims and motives of The History of the Four Last Years of the Queen
  • 5. Swift and authority
  • Conclusion: Swift's Tory historiography
  • Bibliography.

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