Jonathan Swift And The Burden Of The Future
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Jonathan Swift And The Burden Of The Future
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Author : Alan D. Chalmers
language : en
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Release Date : 1995
Jonathan Swift And The Burden Of The Future written by Alan D. Chalmers and has been published by University of Delaware Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Literary Criticism categories.
"Alan Chalmers's Jonathan Swift and the Burden of the Future explores Swift's temporal apprehension in the context of the pertinent seventeenth- and eighteenth-century religious, scientific, and cultural debates. It also compares Swift's imaginative understanding of time with that of such other writers as Juvenal, Rabelais, Milton, Pope, Gray, and Whitman."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Jonathan Swift And The Burden Of The Future
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Author : Alan D. Chalmers
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
Jonathan Swift And The Burden Of The Future written by Alan D. Chalmers and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Future, The, in literature categories.
Representations Of Swift
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Author : Brian A Connery
language : en
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Release Date : 2003
Representations Of Swift written by Brian A Connery and has been published by University of Delaware Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Literary Collections categories.
These thirteen essays offer not only the representations of Swift to which its title refers but also a representation of Swift scholarship at the close of the twentieth century and a return to fundamental questions about the life, writing, and views of Swift, issues raised in part by literary scholarship's return to historicism but also powerfully suggestive of a return to biography.
A Preface To Swift
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Author : Keith Crook
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-07-15
A Preface To Swift written by Keith Crook and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Jonathan Swift's moral and political satires astonished his contemporaries and still have the power to disturb, with their compelling images and unsettling turns of argument, and to delight, with their charm and inventive wit. A Preface to Swift examines the complex appeal of this fierce critic of oppression. While thematically arranged, the text follows a broadly chronological account of Swift's life to show his development as a writer from the prolific and inventive iconoclast to the mature satirist whose enduring memory of past events produced warm friendship as well as strong resentment. It considers in detail his engagement with the corruption of over-secure politicians and his opposition to the easy rationalism of free-thinking pundits. Gulliver's Travels is shown to be a coherent critique of eighteenth-century ideas of science, education and politics in which the order of the books ('the progress of the fable') is highly significant for its whole meaning. While this is a major focus, Keith Crook also discusses a wide range of Swift's other works, including his early satires, his political writings, his poems and his letters. Detailed chronological charts place his life and works in the political and cultural context, and illustrations have been chosen with commentaries to extend the reader's sense of Swift's connections with London, Ireland and his contemporaries. This will be a particularly useful introduction to students who are studying satire as a genre; the early eighteenth-century literary, scientific, philosophical and political context; the representation of women; the political relation of Ireland to England; and the position of the artist within society, especially in connection with the levers of power.
The Practice Of Satire In England 1658 1770
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Author : Ashley Marshall
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2013-06-28
The Practice Of Satire In England 1658 1770 written by Ashley Marshall and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-28 with Humor categories.
Rather, it is a collection of episodic little histories.
Histories Of The Irish Future
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Author : Bryan Fanning
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2014-11-20
Histories Of The Irish Future written by Bryan Fanning and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-20 with History categories.
Histories of the Irish Future is an intellectual history of Ireland and a history of Irish crises viewed through the eyes of twelve key writers: William Petty, William Molyneux, Edmund Burke, Thomas Malthus, Richard Whately, Friedrich Engels, John Mitchel, James Connolly, Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, Jeremiah Newman, Conor Cruise O'Brien and Fintan O'Toole. Their analyses of the shifting conditions of Ireland and their efforts to address Ireland's predicaments are located within the wider social, political, economic and cultural anxieties of their times. The result is a pioneering interdisciplinary contribution to modern Irish history and Irish Studies that will appeal to students of politics, economic history, and philosophy.
Swift As Priest And Satirist
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Author : Todd C. Parker
language : en
Publisher: Associated University Presse
Release Date : 2009
Swift As Priest And Satirist written by Todd C. Parker and has been published by Associated University Presse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Humor categories.
The essays in this volume cover four broad categories: (1) Essays that historicize his relationship to the Church of Ireland and to the bruising world of eighteenth-century theological discourse in general. (2) Essays that examine how Swift represents religious figures and controversies in his poetry and prose, including a A Tale of a Tub. (3) Essays that theorize the relationships between religious and literary genres. (4) Essays that articulate the links between Swift's satires and contemporary religious, philosophical, and scientific discourse."--BOOK JACKET.
Swift And History
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Author : Ashley Marshall
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-04-23
Swift And History written by Ashley Marshall and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-23 with History categories.
This book explores the importance of history to Jonathan Swift through close reading of his historical, polemical and satirical writings.
The Wreckage Of Intentions
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Author : David Alff
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2017-09-12
The Wreckage Of Intentions written by David Alff and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Britain saw the proposal of so many endeavors called "projects"—a catchphrase for the daring, sometimes dangerous practice of shaping the future—that Daniel Defoe dubbed his era a "Projecting Age." These ideas spanned a wide variety of scientific, technological, and intellectual interventions intended for the betterment of England. But for all the fanfare surrounding them, few such schemes actually materialized, leaving scores of defunct visions, from Defoe's own attempt to farm cats for perfume, to Mary Astell's proposal to charter a college for women, to countless ventures for improving land, streamlining government, and inventing new consumer goods. Taken together, these failed plans form a compelling alternative history of a Britain that might have been. The Wreckage of Intentions offers a comprehensive and critical account of projects, exploring the historical memory surrounding these concrete yet incomplete efforts to advance British society during a period defined by revolutions in finance and agriculture, the rise of experimental science, and the establishment of constitutional monarchy. Using methods of literary analysis, David Alff shows how projects began as written proposals, circulated as print objects, spurred physical undertakings, and provoked responses in the realms of poetry, fiction, and drama. Mapping this process discloses the ways in which eighteenth-century authors applied their faculties of imagination to achieve finite goals and, in so doing, devised new ways of seeing the world through its future potential. Approaching old projects through the language, landscapes, data, and personas they left behind, Alff contends this vision was, and remains, vital to the functions of statecraft, commerce, science, religion, and literature.
Reading Swift S Poetry
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Author : Daniel Cook
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-08-13
Reading Swift S Poetry written by Daniel Cook and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book explicates Jonathan Swift's poetry, reaffirming its prominence in competing literary traditions.