Swift and Others
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1107610125
ISBN-13
9781107610125
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 19th, 2015
Print length
320 Pages
Weight
460 grams
Dimensions
22.90 x 15.20 x 2.20 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
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Leading literary critic and scholar Claude Rawson discusses the impact of Jonathan Swift, and the penetration of his ideas, personality and style, on major writers of the English Augustan tradition. Swift's influence extended beyond friends and admirers to adversaries and others who became great ironists in his shadow.
"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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