Representations of Swift / edited by Brian A. Connery.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Connery, Brian A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745--Criticism and interpretation.

Swift, Jonathan.

Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

310 pages : portraits ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, [2002]

Contents:

The Tale, Temple, and Swift's Irish aesthetic / David Deeming

"This way of printing bits of books": the fiction of incompletion in A tale of a tub / Nick Rushworth

Swift's Tale, the Renaissance anatomy, and humanist polemic / W. Scott Blanchard

The authorial strategies of Swift's Verses on the death / Stephen Karian

"He hates much trouble": Johnson's Life of Swift and the contours of biographical inheritance in late eighteenth-century England / J.T. Scanlan

The Rupert Barber portraits of Jonathan Swift / Robert Folkenflik

Swift's mythopoeic authority / Ann Cline Kelly

Hints toward authoritative conversation: Swift's dialogical strategies in the letters and the life / Brian A. Connery

Swift, women, and women readers: a feminist perspective on Swift's life / Louise Barnett

Swift, Reynolds, and the lower orders / Sean Shesgreen

Swift, postcolonialism, and Irish studies: the valence of ambivalence / Robert Mahony

Speaking for the Irish nation: the drapier, the bishop, and the problems of colonial representation / Carole Fabricant

Swift's satiric authority: prospects from the late twentieth-century perspective / Kenneth Craven.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-299) and index.

ISBN:

0874137977

OCLC:

49493552