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Jonathan Swift (Hardcover)
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Jonathan Swift (Hardcover)
Series: Visions and Revisions: Irish Writers in Their Time
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This book offers an accessible, single-volume introduction to a
wider range of Jonathan Swift's writing than is usually covered in
such treatments of him. Primarily a work of
biographically-inflected literary criticism, it draws on insights
furnished by feminist and postcolonial literary theories when those
are relevant. Its portrait of this charismatic writer confronts the
complexities in character, style, and rhetorical posture that make
him enduring and important. Swift is situated as a career-clergyman
rather than an imaginative writer, whose ecclesiastical politics,
geographical and national situation in Ireland, and obliquities of
temperament made him the challenging writer he was. Commencing with
an account of the domestic and foreign contexts in which Swift's
life was rooted, the book provides a chronological account of that
life, putting appropriate emphasis on its controversial and
contested nature. His writing is examined chronologically,
progressing through his early writing, early religious satire,
English political and personal writings, and the Irish phase of his
life and writing. Intersecting those sequential chapters are
thematic and textual chapters. The thematic chapters engage with
the nature of Swift's religion and of his relationships with women.
Textual chapters are devoted to Swift's too often neglected poetic
achievement and to Gulliver's Travels. The book's privileging of
Gulliver's Travels needs no apology: this is still the work of
fiction upon which Swift's reputation as an imaginative writer
rests. Two full chapters are accorded to it in which it is restored
to the Irish context of its composition. Additionally, in the
chapter on Swift's Irish religious and political writings, the
missing religious dimension of Gulliver's Travels a work that draws
on Utopian writing and might have said something about Utopian
religion is considered as part of an analysis of Swift's religious
vocation.
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