Swift's angers

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Label

Swift's angers

Statement of responsibility

Claude Rawson

Creator

• Rawson, Claude Julien

Author

• Rawson, Claude Julien

Subject

• Politics and literature -- England -- History -- 18th century
• Politics and literature -- Ireland -- History -- 18th century
• Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 -- Criticism and interpretation
• Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 -- Political and social views
• Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 -- Psychology
• Anger in literature
• Polarity in literature

Language

eng

Summary

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

Cataloging source

UkCbUP

Dewey number

828/.509

Index

index present

LC call number

PR3727

LC item number

.R33 2014

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries