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Jonathan Swift and the Arts

Joseph McMinn

出版	University of Delaware Press, 2010
主題	Art / EuropeanBiography & Autobiography / GeneralBiography & Autobiography / Literary FiguresLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
ISBN	08741306899780874130683
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=hM8WQyZQLiIC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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His satirical response to some of the new fashions and trends in cultural matters, for example with regard to Italian opera and the emergence of "literary gardens," reveals new aspects of his religious and aesthetic values. It also shows that Swift, like many of his contemporaries, regarded some of the arts as "foreign" and therefore unsuitable to the British national character. Such a prejudice with regard to cultural imports sometimes reveals a conservative and puritanical aesthetic in Swift. As Dean of St. Patrick's, Swift was purposeful and dedicated on the question of music as part of the liturgy, and was very aware of the controversies surrounding sacred and secular music. Indeed, Swift's clerical role is shown to be fundamental to his critical discrimination between the comparative virtues of the arts. This book hopes to broaden an understanding of Swift's relationship to Enlightenment thinking about the role of the arts in eighteenth-century society, and to explore how the politics and the theology of his Irish situation determined his unique perspective on the arts. His views on these matters are an important part of Swift's lifelong arguments about the relative virtues of the Ancients and the Moderns. --Book Jacket.