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.
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).
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Jonathan Swift was very interested in his own name. More precisely, he seems to have looked up what a 'swift' was in Francis Willughby's Ornithology (1678) and came across Willughby's definition of a ...swift which is the biggest of all Swallows. Like a Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, the bird is dressed all in black with a 'notable spot of white' under its chin. Like Jonathan Swift in particular, it 'hath a great Head'. Spurred on by these embarrassing coincidences, Swift often pretended to be a bird in his poetry, but one who did not live up to (or defied) the entry in Ornithology.
Rogers examines the proverbial sources in Jonathan Swift's Polite Conversation. As is well known, Swift makes extensive use of proverb lore in his work A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious ...Conversation (1738), generally known as Polite Conversation after the form of the title found in the Dublin edition by George Faulkner in the same year. This topic has been thoroughly discussed in scholarly articles, and two editions have traced a source for Swift's usages. A popular version by Eric Partridge enlisted the impressive knowledge of catchphrases, historical slang and informal speech for which the compiler was famous.
Historians of the Enlightenment have studied the period's substantial advances in world cartography, as well as the decline of utopia imagined in geographic terms. Literary critics, meanwhile, have ...assessed the emerging novel's realism and in particular the genre's awareness of the wider world beyond Europe. Jason Pearl unites these lines of inquiry inUtopian Geographies and the Early English Novel,arguing that prose fiction from 1660 to 1740 helped demystify blank spaces on the map and make utopia available anywhere. This literature incorporated, debunked, and reformulated utopian conceptions of geography.
Reports of ideal societies have always prompted skepticism, and it is now common to imagine them in the future, rather than on some undiscovered island or continent. At precisely the time when novels began turning from the fabulous settings of romance to the actual locations described in contemporaneous travel accounts, a number of writers nevertheless tried to preserve and reconfigure utopia by giving it new coordinates and parameters.
Margaret Cavendish, Aphra Behn, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, and others told of adventurous voyages and extraordinary worlds. They engaged critically and creatively with the idea of utopia. If these writers ultimately concede that utopian geographies were nowhere to be found, they also reimagine the essential ideals as new forms of interiority and sociability that could be brought back to England. Questions about geography and utopia drove many of the formal innovations of the early novel. As this book shows, what resulted were new ways of representing both world geography and utopian possibility.
But Gulliver's Travels, as it is now known, immediately garnered acclaim "from the cabinet council to the nursery", as Swift's friend, the writer John Gay, reported. Even today, the fantastical ...elements of this four-part story remain popular with children. And as a satirical masterpiece, it is also one of the most remarkable encounters between science and the literary imagination ever penned. Swift not only reflected deeply on the natural philosophy of his day, but also created prescient visions of its future.
Shimanda focuses on the third map in Jonathan Swift's book Gulliver's Travels. The third map (Plate III. Part III. Page. I.) in Gulliver's Travels (1726) describes places in and around Japan, which ...are Red P.t, JAPON, Sando I, Torpui (Okinoshima), Meaco, Osacca, Nobo, Niuato, Iedo, Surunga, Tonsa I, Bungo I, Dimens Strats, I Tanaxima, Toy P.t, Bosho P.t (Bosohanto), Barnevelts, Ongeluckig I, South I, and IESSO (Hokkaido). Most of these place-names are almost faithfully copied from Herman Moll's A New and Correct Map of the Whole World of 1719, and this map of Moll borrowed material from Maerten Gerritsz Vries's map of 1643, Johannes Janssonius's map titled NOVA ET ACCVRATA IAPONIAE TERRAE ESONI.
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