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Swift's angers /

Jonathan Swift's angers were all too real, though Swift was temperamentally equivocal about their display. Even in his most brilliant satire, A Tale of a Tub, the aggressive vitality of the narrative is designed, for all the intensity of its sting, never to lose its cool. Yet Swift's anger...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rawson, Claude Julien (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Swift, Jonathan, > 1667-1745 > Criticism and interpretation.
Swift, Jonathan, > 1667-1745 > Psychology.
Swift, Jonathan, > 1667-1745 > Political and social views.
Anger in literature.
Polarity in literature.
Politics and literature > Ireland > History > 18th century.
Politics and literature > England > History > 18th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: not Timons Manner
  • Part I. Ireland: 1. Swift, Ireland and the paradoxes of ethnicity; 2. The injured lady and the drapier: a reading of Swift's Irish tracts
  • Part II. Fiction: 3. Swift satire and the novel; 4. Gulliver's Travels; 5. Swift's 'I' narrators
  • Part III. Poetry: 6. Rage and raillery and Swift: the case of Cadenus and Vanessa; 7. Vanessa as a reader of Gulliver's Travels; 8. Swift's poetry: an overview; 9. 'I The Lofty Stile Decline': vicissitudes of the 'heroick strain' in Swift's poems; 10. Savage indignation revisited: Swift, Yeats, and the 'cry' of liberty.