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Jonathan Swift : the Irish identity / Robert Mahony.
Van Pelt Library PR3728.I67 M34 1995
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mahony, Robert.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745--Homes and haunts--Ireland.
- Swift, Jonathan.
- Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745--Political and social views.
- Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
- National characteristics, Irish, in literature.
- Nationalism.
- History.
- Political and social views.
- Ireland--Politics and government--18th century.
- Ireland.
- Politics and government.
- Nationalism--Ireland--History--18th century.
- Authors, Irish--18th century--Biography.
- Authors, Irish.
- Nationalists--Ireland--Biography.
- Nationalists.
- Statesmen--Ireland--Biography.
- Statesmen.
- Irish question.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 1995.
- Summary:
- This book traces Swift's fluctuating reception in Ireland through the centuries, finding in Swift's ambivalence about his homeland - which he could not love even as he defended its cause - echoes and anticipations of the ambiguities that have marked the development of Irish identity at large. Mahony looks at Swift's posthumous reputation in literary culture and examines his unusual place in Irish political rhetoric. He shows that Swift's patriotic reputation suffered in the later eighteenth century through its seeming irrelevance to shifting political circumstances.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-215) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0300063741
- OCLC:
- 32510619
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