Jonathan Swift has had a profound impact on almost all the national literatures of Continental Europe. The celebrated author of acknowledged masterpieces like A Tale of a Tub (1704), Gulliver's ...Travels (1726), and A Modest Proposal (1729), the Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin, was courted by innumerable translators, adaptors, and retellers, admired and challenged by shoals of critics, and creatively imitated by both novelists and playwrights, not only in Central Europe (Germany and Switzerland) but also in its northern (Denmark and Sweden) and southern (Italy, Spain, and Portugal) outposts, as well as its eastern (Poland and Russia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria) and Western parts - from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the present day.
Building upon recent research on the history of women, this book examines Swift, both as man and writer, in terms of women: women as intimates, acquaintances, subjects of satire, and those who wrote ...about Swift. The book considers women as mothers and nurses in Swift's personal life and his fictions, and it explores the issue that has persisted from the eighteenth century into our own time: the subject of misogyny in Swift's writings.
The executors of Swift's will rented the southern part of the site of Dr Steevens’ Hospital for the asylum. In her book Swift's Hospital, Elizabeth Malcolm describes recurring problems: in the ...management of the estate, with finance, in contracts with suppliers, maintenance of the buildings, staff discipline, modernising the hospital and in dealing with these matters in compliance with the Founder's wishes. See PDF Throughout its long life the hospital has occupied a prominent position in the care of the mentally ill in Ireland and more recently in teaching and research in association with Trinity College, Dublin.
Jonathan Swift lived through a period of turbulence and innovation in the evolution of the book. His publications, perhaps more than those of any other single author, illustrate the range of ...developments that transformed print culture during the early Enlightenment. Swift was a prolific author and a frequent visitor at the printing house, and he wrote as critic and satirist about the nature of text. The shifting moods of irony, complicity and indignation that characterise his dealings with the book trade add a layer of complexity to the bibliographic record of his published works. The essays collected here offer the first comprehensive, integrated survey of that record. They shed new light on the politics of the eighteenth-century book trade, on Swift's innovations as a maker of books, on the habits and opinions revealed by his commentary on printed texts and on the re-shaping of the Swiftian book after his death.
Jonathan Swift has had a profound impact on almost all the national literatures of Continental Europe. The celebrated author of acknowledged masterpieces like A Tale of a Tub (1704), Gulliver's ...Travels (1726), and A Modest Proposal (1729), the Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin, was courted by innumerable translators, adaptors, and retellers, admired and challenged by shoals of critics, and creatively imitated by both novelists and playwrights, not only in Central Europe (Germany and Switzerland) but also in its northern (Denmark and Sweden) and southern (Italy, Spain, and Portugal) outposts, as well as its eastern (Poland and Russia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria) and Western parts - from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the present day.
Among the many strengths of the book is the exhilarating freshness of these insights: as Mao rightly notes, the problem of justice has not, by and large, preoccupied theorists of the utopian, who ...have focused instead on happiness, social harmony, and the promise/threat of utopian "closure." ...the greatest interest of Mao's book lies less in its large claims than in the way those claims are developed in chapters at once historically deft and dazzling. From this assertion, it's a very short step to two related claims: (1) the appropriate name for this indignation is the ancient Greek term nemesis ("umbrage taken at a state of affairs or an action that in some basic or absolute sense is not right" 4); and (2) despite the close connection between technical and moral dimensions of right design, utopia must ultimately place the former in the service of the latter—must place the social totality in the service of its component parts, conventionally conceived as persons though in principle, at least, extendable to groups, nonhuman animals, and even some kinds of things. ...the satirist tends to locate those causes in human beings themselves (in human folly and vice), while the utopianist introduces the causal role of systems and practices: utopia is indeed characterized, for Mao, by an exploration of these "dual objects of indignation: faulty people and faulty arrangements" (29).
Jonathan Swift and philosophy Pötzsch, Janelle; Hauskeller, Michael; Kramer, Chris A ...
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This book explores the rich philosophical content of the writings of Jonathan Swift. It discusses these philosophical topics against their ideengeschichtliche background and demonstrates that Swift's ...work offers starting points for philosophical reflection that are still topical today.
The single-author study enjoys a difficult relationship with literary studies. Since Warton, or Addison, or Dennis, it has been, if not the coin of the realm, at least a gold standard against which ...that currency is guaranteed. Sensitive, again, to the particulars of Swift's setting, now Armagh, Cook traces the afterlives of Marvell's Civil War verse as well as echoes of Dryden's Virgil and Pope's Windsor Forest to establish the poem as "an inward-looking critique of the English mishandling of the country" (185); the chapter closes with an electric account of Swift's relations to "'conceited' Dubliner dean-poet rival Jonathan Smedley" (216). Southcott, for instance, acted in Pope's youth as his priest and also "fed the Jacobite court valuable intelligence on military operations and the activities of English agents" (19). ...Hone does such a thorough job of showing Pope's indebtedness to Jacobite literary praxis that it seems reasonable to expect that this book will in time consolidate a qualified consensus on the nature, extent, and development of Pope's Jacobitism.
Though aspiring to secularism and tolerance, Enlightenment was in practice, as David Dwan has shown, expressive of religious animosity as much as it was an attempt to mitigate its effects (2020: ...104). Even abstract notions such as liberty partake in this apparent contradiction, as Tyler Stovall makes apparent in his book White Freedom (2021). ...to white abolitionists of the later eighteenth century who saw emancipation as a Christian duty, Berkeley maintained, in a style of thought that closely corresponds to Stovalls concept of white freedom, that gospel liberty consists with temporal servitude, arguing that slaves would only become better slaves by being Christian (1725: 5). ...central is it to the workings of visual perception and the cognition of objects, movement and scale, that shadow can be regarded as a "cornerstone of human understanding of the cosmos", as William Chapman Sharpe outlines in his book Grasping Shadows (2017: 4; cf Sorenson: 2008).
