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Jonathan Swift on the Anglo-Irish Road Clive T. Probyn
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Probyn, Clive T., Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- walking for fitness.
- travel.
- roads.
- Irish Sea.
- colonialism.
- Wales.
- Ogilby.
- Britannia.
- Local Subjects:
- walking for fitness.
- travel.
- roads.
- Irish Sea.
- colonialism.
- Wales.
- Ogilby.
- Britannia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (309 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Paderborn Brill | Fink 2020
- Biography/History:
- Clive Probyn was appointed Professor of English at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia (1982-2009) and is now Emeritus Professor. He is the Founding President of the Samuel Johnson Society of Australia and co-founded the Henry Handel Richardson Society of Australia. In addition he is a member of the advisory board of the Ehrenpreis Center for Swift Studies, Münster.
- Summary:
- What was the relationship between Jonathan Swift, author of Gullivers’s Travels, and his own experience of contemporary Anglo-Irish travel? This new investigation shows how his family history, his politics, his writing life and also his mysterious relationship with two women were both predetermined by and enabled by geography. The Irish Sea made Swift into a restless and necessary traveller capable of living in the space between an imperial England and a colonised Ireland but never fully at home in any one place.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 3-8467-6575-9
- OCLC:
- 1247663338
- Publisher Number:
- 9783846765753
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