As the greatest satirist in the English language, Jonathan Swift was both admired and feared in his own time for the power of his writing, and hugely influential on writers who followed him. Swift transformed models such as utopian writing, political pamphleteering and social critique with his dark and uncompromising vision of the human condition, deepening the outlook of contemporaries such as Alexander Pope, and leaving a legacy of Swiftian satire in the work of Hogarth, Fielding, Austen and Beckett, among others. This collection of essays, with its distinguished list of international…mehr
As the greatest satirist in the English language, Jonathan Swift was both admired and feared in his own time for the power of his writing, and hugely influential on writers who followed him. Swift transformed models such as utopian writing, political pamphleteering and social critique with his dark and uncompromising vision of the human condition, deepening the outlook of contemporaries such as Alexander Pope, and leaving a legacy of Swiftian satire in the work of Hogarth, Fielding, Austen and Beckett, among others. This collection of essays, with its distinguished list of international contributors, centres on Swift, the genres and authors who influenced him, and his impact on satire and satirists from his own time to the twentieth century.
Introduction Part 1. Swift and his Antecedents 1. Swiftian satire and the afterlife of allegory David Rosen and Aaron Santesso 2. Swift, Leviathan and the persons of authors Jonathan Lamb 3. Killing no murder: Jonathan Swift and the polemical tradition Ian Higgins 4. Satirical Wells from Bath to Ballyspellan Harold Love 5. Dryden and the invention of irony Steven N. Zwicker Part 2. Swift and his Time: 6. Self, stuff and surface: the rhetoric of things in Swift's satire Barbara M. Benedict 7. Swift's shapeshifting David Womersley 8. Swift and the poetry of exile Pat Rogers 9. Verses on the death of Dr Swift, reconsidered Howard Erskine-Hill 10. Naming and shaming in the poetry of Pope and Swift, 1726-1745 James McLaverty Part 3. Beyond Swift: 11. Pope and the evolution of social class Nicholas Hudson 12. Fielding's satire and the Jestbook tradition: the case of Lord Justice Page Thomas Keymer 13. Jane Austen: satirical historian Peter Sabor 14. Austen's voices Jenny Davidson 15. The hungry mouth: parody in Hogarth, Goya, and Domenico Tiepolo Ronald Paulson 16. Beckett in the country of the Houyhnhnms: the inward turn of Swiftian satire Marjorie Perloff.
Introduction Part 1. Swift and his Antecedents 1. Swiftian satire and the afterlife of allegory David Rosen and Aaron Santesso 2. Swift, Leviathan and the persons of authors Jonathan Lamb 3. Killing no murder: Jonathan Swift and the polemical tradition Ian Higgins 4. Satirical Wells from Bath to Ballyspellan Harold Love 5. Dryden and the invention of irony Steven N. Zwicker Part 2. Swift and his Time: 6. Self, stuff and surface: the rhetoric of things in Swift's satire Barbara M. Benedict 7. Swift's shapeshifting David Womersley 8. Swift and the poetry of exile Pat Rogers 9. Verses on the death of Dr Swift, reconsidered Howard Erskine-Hill 10. Naming and shaming in the poetry of Pope and Swift, 1726-1745 James McLaverty Part 3. Beyond Swift: 11. Pope and the evolution of social class Nicholas Hudson 12. Fielding's satire and the Jestbook tradition: the case of Lord Justice Page Thomas Keymer 13. Jane Austen: satirical historian Peter Sabor 14. Austen's voices Jenny Davidson 15. The hungry mouth: parody in Hogarth, Goya, and Domenico Tiepolo Ronald Paulson 16. Beckett in the country of the Houyhnhnms: the inward turn of Swiftian satire Marjorie Perloff.
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