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.
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.
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.
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).
Swift on Swifts Sperrin, Dan
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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.
