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Swift's angers
- Title
- Swift's angers / Claude Rawson.
- Author
- Rawson, Claude Julien
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
- Supplementary Content
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- Description
- xiv, 305 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Jonathan Swift's angers were all too real, though Swift was temperamentally equivocal about their display. Even in his most brilliant satire, A Tale of a Tub, the aggressive vitality of the narrative is designed, for all the intensity of its sting, never to lose its cool. Yet Swift's angers are partly self-implicating, since his own temperament was close to the things he attacked, and behind his angers are deep self-divisions. Though he regarded himself as 'English' and despised the Irish 'natives' over whom the English ruled, Swift became the hero of an Irish independence he would not have desired. In this magisterial account, Claude Rawson, widely considered the leading Swift scholar of our time, brings together recent work, as well as classic earlier discussions extensively revised, offering fresh insights into Swift's bleak view of human nature, his brilliant wit, and the indignations and self-divisions of his writings and political activism"--
- Subject
- Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 > Criticism and interpretation
- Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 > Psychology
- Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 > Political and social views
- Anger in literature
- Polarity in literature
- Politics and literature > Ireland > History > 18th century
- Politics and literature > England > History > 18th century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: not Timons Manner -- Part I. Ireland: 1. Swift, Ireland and the paradoxes of ethnicity; 2. The injured lady and the drapier: a reading of Swift's Irish tracts -- Part II. Fiction: 3. Swift satire and the novel; 4. Gulliver's Travels; 5. Swift's 'I' narrators -- Part III. Poetry: 6. Rage and raillery and Swift: the case of Cadenus and Vanessa; 7. Vanessa as a reader of Gulliver's Travels; 8. Swift's poetry: an overview; 9. 'I The Lofty Stile Decline': vicissitudes of the 'heroick strain' in Swift's poems; 10. Savage indignation revisited: Swift, Yeats, and the 'cry' of liberty.
- Call Number
- JFE 14-5566
- ISBN
- 9781107034778 (hardback)
- 1107034779 (hardback)
- 1107610109
- 9781107610101
- LCCN
- 2014012952
- OCLC
- 880861092
- Author
- Rawson, Claude Julien, author.
- Title
- Swift's angers / Claude Rawson.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JFE 14-5566