Swift's Travels: Eighteenth-Century Satire and its Legacy
by Edited by Nicholas Hudson , Aaron SantessoEdition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2008-11-10
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary
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.
Table of Contents
| List of illustrations | p. ix |
| Notes on contributors | p. x |
| Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Swift and His Antecedents | p. 9 |
| Swiftian satire and the afterlife of allegory | p. 11 |
| Swift, Leviathan, and the persons of authors | p. 25 |
| Killing no murder: Jonathan Swift and polemical tradition | p. 39 |
| Satirical wells from Bath to Ballyspellan | p. 55 |
| Dryden and the invention of irony | p. 74 |
| Swift in His Time | p. 91 |
| Self, stuff, and surface: the rhetoric of things in Swift's satire | p. 93 |
| Swift's shapeshifting | p. 108 |
| Swift and the poetry of exile | p. 124 |
| "Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift": the interest of cuts and gaps | p. 143 |
| Naming and shaming in the poetry of Pope and Swift, 1726-1745 | p. 160 |
| Beyond Swift | p. 177 |
| Pope and the evolution of social class | p. 179 |
| Fielding's satire and the jestbook tradition: the case of Lord Justice Page | p. 198 |
| Jane Austen: satirical historian | p. 217 |
| Austen's voices | p. 233 |
| The hungry mouth: eucharistic parody in Hogarth, Goya, and Domenico Tiepolo | p. 251 |
| Beckett in the country of the Houyhnhnms: the inward turn of Swiftian satire | p. 280 |
| Index | p. 300 |
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