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Swift and Others
Claude Rawson
出版Cambridge University Press, 2015-03-19
主題Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / Renaissance
ISBN11070347879781107034785
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ya_GBgAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Jonathan Swift's influence on the writings and politics of England and Ireland was reinforced by a combination of contradictory forces: an authoritarian attachment to tradition and rule, and a vivid responsiveness to the disorders of a modernity he resisted and yet helped to create. He was, perhaps even more than Pope, a dominant voice of his times. The rich variety of the literary culture to which he belonged shows the penetration of his ideas, personality and style. This is true of writers who were his friends and admirers (Pope), of adversaries (Mandeville, Johnson), of several who became great ironists in his shadow (Gibbon, Austen), and of some surprising examples of Swiftian afterlife (Chatterton). Claude Rawson, leading scholar of the works of Swift, brings together recent essays, as well as classic earlier work extensively revised, to offer fresh insights into an era when Swift's voice was a pervasive presence.