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.
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