BOOK

Swift's angers

Rawson, Claude Julien, author

2014

Overview

\"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 angers are partly self-implicating, since his own temperament was close to the things he attacked, and behind his angers are deep self-divisions. Though he regarded himself as 'English' and despised the Irish 'natives' over whom the English ruled, Swift became the hero of an Irish independence he would not have desired. In this magisterial account, Claude Rawson, widely considered the leading Swift scholar of our time, brings together recent work, as well as classic earlier discussions extensively revised, offering fresh insights into Swift's bleak view of human nature, his brilliant wit, and the indignations and self-divisions of his writings and political activism\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: 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.
• ISBN: 9781107034778, 1107034779, 9781107610101, 1107610109

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PR3727.R33 2014	1	BOOK	GENERAL