Swift's Angers
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- Author: Claude Rawson, Yale University, Connecticut
- Date Published: October 2014
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107034778
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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.
Read more- A magisterial study of Jonathan Swift's deep sardonic self-divisions on the subject of human nature, and of the culture and politics of England and Ireland
- Claude Rawson is one of the leading literary critics of our time, and foremost scholar of the works of Jonathan Swift
- Offers revised and enlarged versions of Claude Rawson's important essays on Swift not otherwise readily available, together with uncollected and unpublished work
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'Swift's Angers is deeply learned and provocative, wide-ranging in its references and rich in its readings. Rawson's Swift is a conflicted man … that many of us feel we already know, but one who has perhaps never before been so fully and poignantly rendered.' Ashley Marshall, Modern Philology
See more reviews'[Claude Rawson is] the most consistently brilliant Swiftian of our age. He also brings enviable depth of reading and a range of reference to his analysis of Swift and … the book contains so much lasting value that it should be read by every self-respecting Sciblerian,' Andrew Carpenter, The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats
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- Date Published: October 2014
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107034778
- length: 316 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 158 x 21 mm
- weight: 0.57kg
- contains: 7 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of 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. The mock-edition revisited: Swift to Mailer
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.
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