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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... writings , help make up what I have termed his landscape . An exploration of Swift's landscape , as recorded in his writings , reveals a world expressed through images of metamorphosis and con- fusion , of profound instability at times ...
... writings , help make up what I have termed his landscape . An exploration of Swift's landscape , as recorded in his writings , reveals a world expressed through images of metamorphosis and con- fusion , of profound instability at times ...
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... writings as possible to provide insights into his peculiar angle of vision . Too fre- quently , critical studies of Swift have isolated a single work or a carefully selected group of works for discussion . ( Interpretations of either ...
... writings as possible to provide insights into his peculiar angle of vision . Too fre- quently , critical studies of Swift have isolated a single work or a carefully selected group of works for discussion . ( Interpretations of either ...
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... writings dramatize is precisely the experience of having been " cast into the world , " and what his writings conspicuously fail to con- vey is any sense of having once been at home , embosomed in a warm , pro- tective place . Instead ...
... writings dramatize is precisely the experience of having been " cast into the world , " and what his writings conspicuously fail to con- vey is any sense of having once been at home , embosomed in a warm , pro- tective place . Instead ...
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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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