Swift's LandscapeJohns Hopkins University Press, 1982 - 307 pagina's Swift's Landscape argues for a fundamental reevaluation of Jonathan Swift's place in eighteenth-century literary history. Combining history, biography, and literary criticism, Carole Fabricant restores both Swift's life and his writings to their proper landscape - by emphasizing the influence of the author's Irish involvements and environs on his work. |
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... never - forgotten humiliations he suffered as a youth growing up in Ireland : " Unaccountable , that he should still have an affec [ tion for ] a place , who never received when in it above civil [ contem ] pt , [ and ] who never ...
... never - forgotten humiliations he suffered as a youth growing up in Ireland : " Unaccountable , that he should still have an affec [ tion for ] a place , who never received when in it above civil [ contem ] pt , [ and ] who never ...
Pagina 67
... never there to " behold " ( much less to possess ) , having either escaped or been snatched away before his hungry eyes . Viewed in its widest context , Swift's choice of a boyhood fishing episode as " the type of all [ his ] future ...
... never there to " behold " ( much less to possess ) , having either escaped or been snatched away before his hungry eyes . Viewed in its widest context , Swift's choice of a boyhood fishing episode as " the type of all [ his ] future ...
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... never want to return ( C , 4 : 378 ) . Swift therefore resisted all attempts by his friends to lure him back to England , either for another extended visit or for purposes of resettlement . The explanations offered for this resistance ...
... never want to return ( C , 4 : 378 ) . Swift therefore resisted all attempts by his friends to lure him back to England , either for another extended visit or for purposes of resettlement . The explanations offered for this resistance ...
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CENTRAL FEATURES OF SWIFTS LANDSCAPE | 24 |
SWIFTS ANTIPASTORAL VISION AND IRELANDS | 55 |
THE SUBVERSION OF THE COUNTRY HOUSE IDEAL | 95 |
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