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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      March 2015
      March 2015
      ISBN:
      9781139540995
      9781107034785
      9781107610125
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139540995
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.57kg, 320 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.45kg, 320 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Irish Literature, English Literature 1700-1830
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    Literature, Irish Literature, English Literature 1700-1830
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    Jonathan Swift's influence on the writings and politics of England and Ireland was reinforced by a combination of contradictory forces: an authoritarian attachment to tradition and rule, and a vivid responsiveness to the disorders of a modernity he resisted and yet helped to create. He was, perhaps even more than Pope, a dominant voice of his times. The rich variety of the literary culture to which he belonged shows the penetration of his ideas, personality and style. This is true of writers who were his friends and admirers (Pope), of adversaries (Mandeville, Johnson), of several who became great ironists in his shadow (Gibbon, Austen), and of some surprising examples of Swiftian afterlife (Chatterton). Claude Rawson, leading scholar of the works of Swift, brings together recent essays, as well as classic earlier work extensively revised, to offer fresh insights into an era when Swift's voice was a pervasive presence.

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    'Rawson is a leading critic of eighteenth-century literature. He combines profound learning with tremendous range and stylistic grace, and he approaches everything he writes about with great originality.'

    J. T. Lynch Source: Choice

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