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Book Jonathan Swift on the Anglo Irish Road

Download or read book Jonathan Swift on the Anglo Irish Road written by Clive T. Probyn and published by Brill Fink. This book was released on 2020-07-10 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was the relationship between Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliversþs Travels and his own experience of contemporary Anglo-Irish travel? This new investigation shows how his family history, his politics, his writing life and also his mysterious relationship with two women were both predetermined by and enabled by geography. The Irish Sea made Swift into a restless and necessary traveller capable of living in the space between an imperial England and a colonised Ireland but never fully at home in any one place.

Book Swift  the Book  and the Irish Financial Revolution

Download or read book Swift the Book and the Irish Financial Revolution written by Sean D. Moore and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2010 Donald Murphy Prize for a Distinguished First Book, American Conference on Irish Studies Renowned as one of the most brilliant satirists ever, Jonathan Swift has long fascinated Hibernophiles beyond the shores of the Emerald Isle. Sean Moore's examination of Swift's writings and the economics behind the distribution of his work elucidates the humorist's crucial role in developing a renewed sense of nationalism among the Irish during the eighteenth century. Taking Swift's Irish satires, such as A Modest Proposal and the Drapier's Letters, as examples of anticolonial discourse, Moore unpacks the author's carefully considered published words and his deliberate drive to liberate the Dublin publishing industry from England's shadow to argue that the writer was doing nothing less than creating a national print media. He points to the actions of Anglo-Irish colonial subjects at the outset of Britain's financial revolution; inspired by Swift's dream of a sovereign Ireland, these men and women harnessed the printing press to disseminate ideas of cultural autonomy and defend the country's economic rights. Doing so, Moore contends, imbued the island with a sense of Irishness that led to a feeling of independence from England and ultimately gave the Irish a surprising degree of financial autonomy. Applying postcolonial, new economic, and book history approaches to eighteenth-century studies, Swift, the Book, and the Irish Financial Revolution effectively links the era's critiques of empire to the financial and legal motives for decolonization. Scholars of colonialism, postcolonialism, Irish studies, Atlantic studies, Swift, and the history of the book will find Moore's eye-opening arguments original and compelling.

Book Jonathan Swift in Context

Download or read book Jonathan Swift in Context written by Joseph Hone and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-09 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Swift remains the most important and influential satirist in the English language. The author of Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, and A Tale of a Tub, in addition to vast numbers of political pamphlets, satirical verses, sermons, and other kinds of text, Swift is one of the most versatile writers in the literary canon. His writings were always closely intertwined with the English and Irish worlds in which he lived. The forty-four essays collected in Jonathan Swift in Context advance the latest research on Swift in a way that will engage undergraduate students while also remaining useful for scholars. Reflecting the best of current and ongoing scholarship, the contextual approach advanced by this volume will help to make Swift's works even more powerful and resonant to modern audiences.

Book A Political Biography of Jonathan Swift

Download or read book A Political Biography of Jonathan Swift written by David Oakleaf and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most famous as the author of "Gulliver's Travels", Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was one of the most important propagandists and satirists of his day. This study seeks to contextualize Swift within the political arena of his day.

Book The Prose of Jonathan Swift Volume VII

Download or read book The Prose of Jonathan Swift Volume VII written by Jonathan Swift and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-05-18 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Prose of Jonathan Swift Volume VII" from Jonathan Swift. Anglo-irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (1667-1745).

Book Curious Travellers

Download or read book Curious Travellers written by Mary-Ann Constantine and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-07-02 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Curious Travellers: Writing the Welsh Tour, 1760-1820 provides the first extensive literary study of British tours of Wales in the Romantic period (c.1760-1820). It examines writers' responses to Welsh landscapes and communities at a time of drastic economic, environmental, and political change. Opening with an overview of Welsh tours up to the early 1700s, Mary-Ann Constantine shows how the intensely intertextual nature of the genre imbued particular sites and locations with meaning. She next draws upon a range of manuscript and published sources to trace a circular tour of the country, unpicking moments of cultural entanglement and revealing how travel-writing shaped understanding of Wales and Welshness within the wider British polity. Wales became a popular destination for visitors following the publication of Thomas Pennant's Tours in Wales in the late 1770s. Hundreds of travel-accounts from the period are extant, yet few (particularly those by women) have been studied in depth. Wales proves, in these narratives, as much a place of disturbance as a picturesque haven--a potent mixture of medieval past and industrial present, exposed down its west coast to the threat of invasion during the Napoleonic Wars. From castles to copper-mines, Constantine explores the full potential of tour writing as an idiosyncratic genre at the interface of literature and history, arguing for its vital importance to broader cultural and environmental studies.

Book The Prose of Jonathan Swift Volume IV

Download or read book The Prose of Jonathan Swift Volume IV written by Jonathan Swift and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-05-18 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Prose of Jonathan Swift Volume IV" from Jonathan Swift. Anglo-irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (1667-1745).

Book The Works of the Rev  Jonathan Swift   Volume IX

Download or read book The Works of the Rev Jonathan Swift Volume IX written by Jonathan Swift and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift - Volume IX" from Jonathan Swift. Anglo-Irish writer of novels, poetry and essays who also used the name Isaac Bickerstaff among other pseudonyms (1667-1745).

Book The Works of the Rev  Jonathan Swift   Volume IV

Download or read book The Works of the Rev Jonathan Swift Volume IV written by Jonathan Swift and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift - Volume IV" from Jonathan Swift. Anglo-Irish writer of novels, poetry and essays who also used the name Isaac Bickerstaff among other pseudonyms (1667-1745).

Book The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift  Historical and political tracts Irish

Download or read book The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift Historical and political tracts Irish written by Jonathan Swift and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift  Vol  VI  the Drapier s Letters

Download or read book The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift Vol VI the Drapier s Letters written by Jonathan Swift and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-06-24 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for theWhigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. He is remembered for works such as Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Journal to Stella, Drapier's Letters, The Battle of the Books, An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity, and A Tale of a Tub. Swift is probably the foremost prose satirist in theEnglish language, and is less well known for his poetry. Swift originally published all of his works under pseudonyms – such asLemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, M.B. Drapier – or anonymously. He is also known for being a master of two styles of satire: theHoratian and Juvenalian styles.-wikipedia

Book A Modest Proposal

Download or read book A Modest Proposal written by Jonathan Swift and published by Modernista. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In one of the most powerful and darkly satirical works of the 18th century, a chilling solution is proposed to address the dire poverty and overpopulation plaguing Ireland. Jonathan Swift presents a shockingly calculated and seemingly rational argument for using the children of the poor as a food source, thereby addressing both the economic burden on society and the issue of hunger. This provocative piece is a masterful example of irony and social criticism, as it exposes the cruel attitudes and policies of the British ruling class towards the Irish populace. Jonathan Swift's incisive critique not only underscores the absurdity of the proposed solution but also serves as a profound commentary on the exploitation and mistreatment of the oppressed. A Modest Proposal remains a quintessential example of satirical literature, its biting wit and moral indignation as relevant today as it was at the time of its publication. JONATHAN SWIFT [1667-1745] was an Anglo-Irish author, poet, and satirist. His deadpan satire led to the coining of the term »Swiftian«, describing satire of similarly ironic writing style. He is most famous for the novel Gulliver’s Travels [1726] and the essay A Modest Proposal [1729].

Book Jonathan Swift  1667 1745

Download or read book Jonathan Swift 1667 1745 written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents information about Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), the Anglo-Irish satirist and political pamphleteer. Includes a biography. Discusses his early writings; the women in Swift's life; and the novel "Gulliver's Travels," which was published anonymously. Links to sites containing the full text versions of "Gulliver's Travels," "A Modest Proposal," "A Tale of a Tub," and "Selected Poetry." Notes that the information is provided as part of the Western Canon Web site.

Book The Works of Jonathan Swift  Tracts relative to Ireland  The drapier s letters  Miscellaneous tracts upon Irish affairs

Download or read book The Works of Jonathan Swift Tracts relative to Ireland The drapier s letters Miscellaneous tracts upon Irish affairs written by Jonathan Swift and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift

Download or read book The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift written by Jonathan Swift and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Reception of Jonathan Swift in Europe

Download or read book The Reception of Jonathan Swift in Europe written by Hermann J. Real and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Art of Jonathan Swift

Download or read book The Art of Jonathan Swift written by Clive T. Probyn and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: